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 21

• Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies. [1] [5]

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 Switz, 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 began 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 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]

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 30

• Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston. [1]

December 31

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