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July 11: Burr shoots Hamilton. 1804 (MDCCCIV) was a leap year starting on
Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1804th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
804th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 4th year of the 19th century,
and the 5th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1804,
the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France,
and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever. ·
February 4 – Sokoto Caliphate founded in west
Africa. ·
February 14 – The First Serbian
Uprising begins the Serbian Revolution.
By 1817, the Principality of
Serbia proclaims self-rule from the Ottoman Empire, the first nation-state in
Europe to do so. ·
February 15 – New Jersey becomes the last of
the northern United
States to abolish slavery. ·
February 16 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn
the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia at Tripoli to deny her further use by the
captors. ·
February 18 – Ohio University is chartered by the
Ohio General Assembly. ·
February 21 – Cornishman Richard Trevithick's
newly built Penydarren steam locomotive operates on the Merthyr Tramroad, between Penydarren in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon in South Wales, following several trials
since February 13, the
world's first locomotive to work on rails.[1] ·
February 22–April 22 – 1804 Haiti Massacre,
an ethnic cleansing with the goal of eradicating the white population on
Haiti.[2] ·
March 4–5 – Castle Hill
convict rebellion in New South Wales led by Irish convicts in
Australia.[3] ·
March 7 – In Britain: ·
John
Wedgwood founds the Royal Horticultural
Society.[4] ·
Thomas Charles is instrumental in
founding the British
and Foreign Bible Society.[5] ·
March 10 – Louisiana Purchase, Three Flags Day: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to
transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from
France to the United States. ·
March 17 – Friedrich Schiller's
play Wilhelm Tell,
is first performed at Weimar, under the
direction of Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe. ·
March 21 – The Napoleonic Code is adopted as
French civil law. April–June[edit] ·
April 2 – Forty merchantmen are
wrecked, when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs
aground off Portugal. ·
April 4 – Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, aboard The Speedwell, sails to the
Mediterranean. ·
April 5 – The High Possil
meteorite, the first recorded meteorite to fall in Scotland in modern
times, falls at High Possil. ·
April 26 – Henry Addington resigns as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
May 10 – William Pitt the
Younger begins his second term as Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom. ·
May 14 – The Lewis and
Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois, and begins their historic
journey by traveling up the Missouri River. ·
May 18 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the
French by the French Senate. ·
May 21 – Pčre Lachaise
Cemetery a 118-acre (0.48 km2) cemetery in Paris,
France is opened. ·
June 9 – Beethoven's Symphony
No. 3 in E–flat premiered in Vienna. ·
June 15 – The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is
ratified by New Hampshire,
and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New
Hampshire). ·
June 21 – Smithson Tennant announces the
discovery of the elements iridium and osmium; three days later, William Hyde
Wollaston reveals to the Royal Society that he is the
formerly anonymous discoverer of palladium.[6] July–September[edit] ·
July 11 – Aaron Burr, Vice
President of the United States, shoots former U.S. Secretary of
the Treasury Alexander Hamilton during
a duel; Hamilton
dies the next day. ·
July 27 – The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is
ratified by Tennessee, removing
doubt surrounding adoption. ·
August 20 – Lewis and
Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery,
whose purpose is to explore the Louisiana Purchase,
suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies,
apparently from acute appendicitis. ·
September 1 – German astronomer K. L. Harding discovers
the asteroid Juno. October–December[edit] ·
October 5 – Action of 5
October 1804: War between Spain and the United Kingdom is triggered by the
battle between four British warships (Indefatigable, Medusa, Amphion and Lively)
and four Spanish frigates (Medee, Fama, Clara and Mercedes),
all carrying treasure and merchandise. Captain Graham Moore of Indefatigable informs
Spanish Admiral Jose Bustamente of his orders to detain the treasure-laden
ships and, "not receiving a satisfactory answer, an Action
commenced";[7] La Mercedes is
sunk and the other three ships surrender. ·
October 8 – Jean-Jacques
Dessalines holds his coronation as Jean-Jacques I, Emperor
of Haiti.[8] ·
November 3 – The Treaty of St.
Louis is signed by Quashquame and William Henry
Harrison; controversy surrounding the treaty eventually causes
the Sauk people to
ally with the British during the War of 1812, and is the main cause of
the Black Hawk War of
1832. ·
November 20 – Said
bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, starts to rule. ·
November 30 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins
an impeachment trial
against Federalist-partisan Supreme
Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase, on charges of political bias (he
is acquitted by the United States Senate of
all charges on March 1, 1805).
December 2: The Coronation
of Napoleon ·
December 2 – Coronation of
Napoleon I: At the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Napoleon crowns himself as the
first Emperor of the
French in a thousand years. Witnessing this, Simón Bolívar dedicates
himself to liberating Venezuela from
Spanish rule. ·
December 3 – Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in
the United
States presidential election. ·
December 12 – Spain declares war on the
United Kingdom. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Nguyễn dynasty emperor Gia Long changes his country's official
name from Đại
Việt to Việt Nam. ·
Morphine is first isolated from
the opium poppy by
the German pharmacist, Friedrich Sertürner. ·
Matthew Flinders recommends that New Holland be
renamed Australia (from the Latin "australis"
meaning "of the south"). ·
World population reaches 1 billion
people. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 1 – James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (d. 1836) ·
January 10 – Élie Frédéric Forey,
Marshal of France (d. 1872) ·
January 20 – Eugčne Sue, French novelist (d. 1857) ·
January 21 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887) ·
February – James Bronterre
O'Brien, Irish-born Chartist (d. 1864) ·
February 7 – John Deere,
American industrialist (d. 1886) ·
February 13 – Claude-Étienne Minié,
French army officer and weapon inventor (d. 1879) ·
February 29 – Carl von Rokitansky,
Czech physician and pathologist (d. 1878) ·
March 8 – Alvan Clark, American telescope manufacturer
(d. 1887) ·
March 14 – Johann Strauss Senior, Austrian composer
(d. 1849) ·
March 17 – Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer
(d. 1881) ·
March 20 – Neal Dow, mayor of Portland and Father of
Prohibition (d. 1897) ·
April 3 – Lucien Baudens, French military surgeon
(d. 1857) ·
April 4 – Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter
(d. 1886) ·
April 26 – Charles
Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876) ·
May 4 – Margaretta Riley, British botanic (d. 1899) ·
May 16 – Elizabeth Peabody,
Transcendental activist, educator (d. 1894) ·
June 1 ·
Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857) ·
George Sand, French writer (d. 1876) ·
June 24 – Willard Richards, American religious leader
(d. 1854) July–December[edit]
·
July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne,
American writer (d. 1864) ·
July 6 – Jerónimo Carrión,
8th President of Ecuador (d. 1873) ·
July 14 – Ludwig von Benedek,
Austrian general (d. 1881) ·
July 20 – Richard Owen, English anatomist, paleontologist,
and zoologist (d. 1892) ·
July 23 – Jane Irwin Harrison, de
facto First
Lady of the United States (d. 1846) ·
July 28 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher
(d. 1872) ·
September 5 – William
Alexander Graham, United States
Senator from North Carolina (1840–1843), Confederate
States Senator (1864–1865) (d. 1875) ·
September 8 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875) ·
September 11 – Mercedes Marín
del Solar, international Chilean poet and reform educator
(d. 1866) ·
Louis Désiré Maigret,
Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu (d. 1882) ·
John Gould, English ornithologist (d. 1881) ·
October 18 – Mongkut, Rama IV, King of Siam (d. 1868) ·
October 24 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber,
German physicist (d. 1891) ·
November 18 – Alfonso
Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878) ·
November 23 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President
of the United States (d. 1869) ·
December 7 – Noah Haynes Swayne, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1884) ·
December 10 – Carl Gustav
Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851) ·
December 13 – Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873) ·
December 16 – Viktor Bunyakovsky,
Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. 1889) ·
December 21 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881) ·
December 23 – Charles
Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and
painter (d. 1879) ·
Eugénie Luce, French educator (d. 1882)[9] ·
James Mackay, Scottish-born New Zealand
politician (d. 1875) ·
Hortense
Globensky-Prévost, Canadian heroine (d. 1873) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 4 – Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, British author and
poet (b. 1727) ·
January 15 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725) ·
February 6 – Joseph Priestley, English chemist (b. 1733) ·
February 12 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (b. 1724) ·
March 3 – Giovanni
Domenico Tiepolo, painter (b. 1727) ·
March 13 – Damodar Pande, Prime Minister of Nepal
(b. 1752) ·
March 16 – Henrik Gabriel
Porthan Finnish writer and historian (b. 1739) ·
March 21 – Louis
Antoine, Duke of Enghien (executed) (b. 1772) ·
March 30 – Victor-François,
2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718) ·
April 9 – Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732) ·
April 11 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer,
Catholic priest (b. 1737) ·
April 15 – Jean-Charles
Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761) ·
May 25 – Johann Joachim
Spalding, German theologian (b. 1714) July–December[edit] ·
July 12 – Alexander Hamilton,
American statesman (killed in a duel) (b. 1755) ·
September 4 – Richard Somers, American naval officer
(killed in battle) (b. 1778) ·
October 2 – Nicolas-Joseph
Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725) ·
October 8 – Thomas Cochran
(judge), Canadian judge (b. 1777) ·
October 29 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (b. 1729) ·
November 5 – Maria Anna
Adamberger, Austrian actress (b. 1752) ·
November 18 – Philip Schuyler, general in the American Revolution,
a United States
Senator from New York, father of Angelica
Schuyler Church and Elizabeth
Schuyler Hamilton (b. 1733) ·
November 23 – Richard Graves, English writer (b. 1715) ·
December 18 – Jacob ben Wolf Kranz,
Lithuanian maggid (b. c. 1740) ·
December 25 – Contarina Barbarigo,
famous Venetian noble. References[edit] 1. ^ Rattenbury, Gordon; Lewis, M. J.
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On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. 5. ^ "Our timeline". Bible Society.
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Periodic System and Some of its Problems", by James Lewis Howe, in The
Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science(July 20, 1900) p31 7. ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The
Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson (Cambridge
University Press, 1846; reprinted 2011) p266 8. ^ John Relly Beard, The Life
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