1805

January 11

• Michigan Territory is organized. [1]

January 17

• Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron French interpreter, dies at age 73. [1]

January 19

• Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier composer, dies at age 43. [1]

January 23

• Vaclav Pichl composer, dies at age 63. [1]

January 24

• Giacomo Conti composer, dies at age 50. [1]

January 28

• Mihály Csokonai Vitéz Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya), dies at age 31. [1]

February 27

• Stefan Paluselli composer, dies at age 57. [1]

March 3

• Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms. [1]

March 4

• Jean-Baptiste Greuze French painter, dies at age 79. [1]

April 6

• Lorenz Justinian Ott composer, dies at age 56. [1]

April 7

• Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself). [1]

April 26

• Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at age 55. [1]

April 27

• US Marines attack shores of Tripoli. [1]

May 4

• Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx New York. [1]

May 9

• Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller poet/playwright, dies at age 45. [1]

May 16

• Christian Brunings hydraulic engineer, dies at age 68. [1]

May 26

• Lewis and Clark first see Rocky Mountains. [1]
• Napoleon is crowned king of Italy. [1]

May 28

• Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini Italian composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at age 62. [1]

June 4

• Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute. [1]

June 5

• First recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois). [1]

June 21

• Great Stoneface Mount found in New Hampshire. [1]

July 8

• American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England. [1]

October 19

• A combined Franco-Spanish fleet sets sail to force a battle with the Royal Navy at Cape Trafalgar, on the southwest coast of Spain. [472.84]

October 21

• The Royal Navy, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson, attacks the Franco-Spanish Fleet at Cape Trafalgar. The British capture or destroy 22 of the 33 ships, with no British ship losses. An estimated 14,000 allied forces are killed wounded, or captured, with British losses totalling 1690. Admiral Nelson is struck by a bullet and is killed. [1] [5] [472.84]

October 23

• Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340. [1]

November 7

• Lewis and Clark first sight Pacific Ocean. [1]

November 8

• The Lewis and Clark expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean, the first European explorers to do so by an overland route from the east. [129]

November 18

• 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America. [1]

November 20

• The opera "Fidelio" is produced (Vienna). [1]

November 25

• The opera "Thaïs" first American performance. [1]

December 2

• Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz. [1]

December 9

• Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth. [1]

December 10

• Friedrich Franz Hurka composer, dies at age 43. [1]

December 26

• France and Austria sign Peace of Pressburg. [1]
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia. [1]

December 27

• Belle van Zuylen Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at age 65. [1]

December 31

• End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism. [1]

1806

January 8

• Cape colony becomes English colony. [1]
• Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon. [1]

January 10

• Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British. [1]

January 12

• French evacuate Vienna. [1]

January 19

• Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope. [1]

January 23

• William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister Great Britain (1783-1806), dies at age 46. [1]

January 30

• Prussia takes possession of Hanover. [1]

February 11

• Vicente Martin y Soler composer, dies at age 51. [1]

February 23

• John Alcock composer, dies at age 90. [1]

February 24

• John Nieuwenhuijzen theologist (Society for General Use), dies at age 81. [1]

March 16

• Giuseppe Colla composer, dies at age 74. [1]

March 17

• David Dale industrialist and philanthropist, dies. [1]

March 23

• George Frederic Pinto composer, dies at age 20. [1]
• Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast. [1]

April 4

• Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer composer, dies at age 84. [1]

April 5

• Isaac Quintard patents apple cider. [1]

April 9

• Willem V Batavus prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at age 58. [1]

April 13

• Jean-Jacques Bachelier French painter, dies at about age 82. [1]

April 27

• Amalia Fürstin Gallitzin Prussian daughter of Golitsyn, dies at age 57. [1]

May 31

• Michaël FB baron von Melas Austrian general, dies at age 77. [1]

June 5

• First trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee). [1]
• Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland. [1]

June 27

• Buenos Aires captured by British. [1]

July 3

• Michael Keens exhibits first cultivated strawberry. [1]

August 6

• Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. [1]

September 2

• A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500. [1]

September 23

• Lewis and Clark return to Saint Louis from the Pacific Northwest. [1] [129]

October 7

• Patent granted in London, England for "apparatus for producing duplicates of writings", paper saturated with ink then dried (carbon paper). [5] [55.33]

October 9

• Benjamin Banneker astronomer/mathematician, dies at age 74. [1]

October 14

• Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians. [1]

October 17

• Jean Jacques Dessalines Emperor of Haiti, dies. [1]

November 15

• First US college magazine, Yale Literary Cabinet, publishes first issue. [1]
• Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak. [1]

1807

January 1

• Curaçao is taken by English (until March, 1816). [1]

January 5

• Michel Adanson French biologist (Plant classes), dies at age 79. [1]

January 12

• Adriaan Kluit Dutch historian, dies at age 71. [1]
• Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Netherlands, 150 die. [1]
• Joan Lucaz Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at age 60. [1]

January 20

• Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris. [1]

January 28

• London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight. [1]

February 5

• Pasquale Paoli Corsican freedom fighter, dies at age 80. [1]

February 6

• John Reid composer, dies at age 85. [1]

February 8

• Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau. [1]

February 9

• French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon. [1]

February 10

• US Coast Survey authorized by Congress. [1]

February 18

• August G Meissner German estheticus/literary, dies at age 53. [1]
• S von Laroche writer, dies at age 75. [1]

February 19

• British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelles. [1]
• Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent. [1]

February 23

• François Guichard composer, dies at age 61. [1]

February 24

• Seventeen die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England. [1]

March 2

• US Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808. [1]

March 5

• First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B. [1]

March 11

• Anton Eberl composer, dies at age 41. [1]

March 25

• First railway passenger service begins in England. [1]
• British Parliament abolishes slave trade. [1]
• George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs. [1]

April 1

• Louis François Chambray composer, dies at age 69. [1]
• Miklós Révai Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at age 57. [1]
• Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner composer, dies at age 61. [1]

April 4

• Joseph Jérôme Le Francais de Lalande French astronomer, dies. [1]

April 9

• John Opie England, painter/illustrator; Shakespeare gallery, dies at age 45. [1]

April 10

• Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbüttel duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies. [1]

April 18

• Erasmus Darwin physician/writer (Influence), dies. [1]

May 22

• Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted). [1]
• Townsend Speakman first sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Philadelphia). [1]

June 22

• British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812. [1]

August 17

• Robert Fulton's American steamboat Clermont leaves New York City, inaugurating the world's first commercial steamboat service. [1] [5] [245.4]

September 1

• Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire. [1]

September 14

• Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. [1]

October 1

• John Mühlenberg Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday. [1]

December 3

• Clara Reeve English author (old English baron), dies. [1]

December 4

• Prince Hall activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston. [1]

December 22

• US Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France. [1]

1808

January 1

• African Benevolent Society (education) forms. [1]
• US Congress prohibits importation of slaves. [1]
• Sierra Leone becomes a British colony. [1]

January 8

• Messenger horse that sired many great trotters, dies. [1]

January 10

• Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies. [1]

January 19

• Louis Napoleon signs first Dutch aviation law. [1]

February 11

• Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. [1]

February 21

• Russia attacks Finland, declaring intentions to annex it. [7]

March 6

• First college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard. [1]

March 7

• Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro. [1]

March 19

• King Charles IV of Spain abdicates. [479.50]

March 23

• Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain. [1]

March 27

• Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schöpfung" premieres in Vienna. [1]

March 31

• French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names. [1]

April 9

• Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace. [1]

April 13

• William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects the tap dance. [1]

April 17

• Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships. [1]

April 25

• Alois Luigi Tomasini composer, dies at age 66. [1]

April 30

• First practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri. [1]

May 2

• Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid. [1]

May 3

• Goya's "Executions of the third of May". [1]

May 18

• Jacob Albright [Albrecht] German/US preacher, dies at age 49. [1]

May 30

• Napoleon annexes Tuscany and gave it seats in French Senate. [1]

June 1

• First US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio. [1]

June 22

• Zebulon Pike reaches his peak. [1]

July 2

• Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, British Columbia, Canada, lands at Musqueam. [1]

July 5

• Battle of Buenos Aires. [1]

July 21

• Junta Barcelonesa in Spain authorizes peseta denomination coins. [458.40]

September 15

• Gabriel J. de Yermo stages a coup in Mexico, replacing provisional governor José de Iturrigaray with General Pedro de Garibay. [479.50]

November 10

• Osage Treaty signed. [1]

December 1

• Anton Fischer composer, dies at age 30. [1]

December 7

• James Madison elected US President,George Clinton Vice-President. [1]

1809

January 1

• Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chassé reaches Madrid. [1]

January 4

• Bartolomeo Giacometti composer, dies at age 67. [1]

January 5

• Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France. [1]

January 12

• British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814). [1]

January 20

• First US geology book published by William Maclure. [1]

February 1

• Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system. [1]

February 3

• Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin). [1]

February 8

• Franz I of Austria declares war on France. [1]

February 11

• Robert Fulton patents the steamboat. [1]

February 13

• French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege. [1]

February 20

• Johann Joseph Emmert composer, dies at age 76. [1]
• US Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state. [1]

March 1

• Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed. [1]

March 4

• Madison becomes first President inaugurated in American-made clothes. [1]

March 7

• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian composer, dies at age 73. [1]

March 13

• In Sweden, army officers arrest King Gustav IV Adolf in his castle. The king is forced to abdicate, deposed together with his heirs, and expelled from the country. [7]

March 23

• Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes composer, dies at age 60. [1]

March 26

• Gabriele Mario Piozzi composer, dies at age 68. [1]

March 27

• Joseph M Vien French (court)painter/etcher, dies at age 92. [1]

March 31

• Franz Joseph Haydn composer, dies on 77th birthday. [1]

April 14

• Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. [1]

April 18

• First run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England. [1]

April 20

• Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria. [1]

April 22

• Battle at Eckmühl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl. [1]

May 5

• Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland. [1]
• Mary Kies is first woman issued a US patent (weaving straw). [1]

May 8

• Augustin Pajou French sculptor (Bachante), dies at age 78. [1]

May 17

• Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg physician, dies. [1]
• Papal States annexed by France. [1]

May 21

• Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon. [1]

May 24

• Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war. [1]

May 30

• Johan B Scheffer portrait painter, dies at about age 43. [1]

May 31

• Ferdinand von Schill Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at age 33. [1]
• Franz Josef Haydn Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies in Wien (Vienna) Austria at age 77. [1]

June 8

• Thomas Paine writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at age 72. [1]

June 10

• First US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Philadelphia. [1]

July 31

• First practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia. [1]

August 10

• Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day). [1]

September 17

• Sweden is forced to make peace with Russia, ceding all of Finland, the Åland islands, and a north-eastern strip of Sweden. In total, Sweden loses one-third of its territory. [7]

September 18

• The Royal Opera House in London opens. [5]

October 11

• Meriwether Lewis capt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at age 35. [1]

November 22

• Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen. [1]

December 10

• Sweden signs a peace treaty with Denmark. [7]

December 16

• Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by the French Senate. [1]

December 26

• English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen. [1]

December 31

• Franz Ignaz Beck composer, dies at age 75. [1]