1804

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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  - 1800s -  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1801 1802 1803 - 1804 - 1805 1806 1807

1804 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:         Australia - Canada -

Ireland - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1804 (MDCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1804 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 1.6 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

Events of 1804

January - March

• January 1 - End of French rule in Haiti. Haiti gains independence from France and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever.

• February 14 - First Serbian Uprising began.
• February 15 - New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery.
• February 16 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.

• February 18 - Ohio University is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly.
• February 21 - The first self-propelling steam engine or steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales. Designed by Richard Trevithick, a Cornishman.

• March 7 - John Wedgwood founds The Royal Horticultural Society.
• March 10 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
• March 20 - Execution of the Duc d’Enghien for plotting against Napoleon.
• March 21 - Code Napoleon adopted as French civil law.

April - June

• April 2 - Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal
• April 5 - The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).
• April 26 - Henry Addington resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

• May 10 - William Pitt the younger begins his second term as a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 14 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
• May 18 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.

• June 15 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire).

July - September

• July 11 - Alexander Hamilton was shot during a duel with Aaron Burr and dies the next day.
• July 27 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 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.
• Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election.

October - December

• November 30 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805).

• December 2 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself as the first Emperor of the French in a thousand years (the Napoleonic Code is adopted).
• December 12 - Spain declares war on Britain.

Undated

• Père Lachaise Cemetery a 118 acre (0.5 km²) cemetery in Paris, France is founded.

• Morphine is first isolated from opium by the German pharmacist, Friedrich Sertürner.

Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).
• Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed "Australia" (from the Latin "australis" meaning "of the south").

Births

1804 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1804 MDCCCIV
Ab urbe condita	2557
Armenian calendar	1253 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-40 – -39
Buddhist calendar	2348
Chinese calendar	4440/4500-11-19 (癸亥年十一月十九日) — to — 4441/4501-11-30 (甲子年十一月三十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1796 – 1797
Hebrew calendar	5564 – 5565
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1859 – 1860
- Shaka Samvat	1726 – 1727
- Kali Yuga	4905 – 4906
Holocene calendar	11804
Iranian calendar	1182 – 1183
Islamic calendar	1218 – 1219
Japanese calendar	Kyōwa 3 (享和3年) — changed to — Bunka 1 (文化元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2464 (皇紀2464年)
- Jōmon Era	11804
Julian calendar	1849
Korean calendar	4137
Thai solar calendar	2347
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January - June

• January 1 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (d. 1836)
• January 10 - Elie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France (d. 1872)
• January 20 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
• January 21 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
• February 7 - John Deere, American industrialist (d. 1886)
• 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)
• May 16 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Transcendental Activist, Educator (d. 1894)
• June 1 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
• June 1 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
• June 24 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)

July - December

• July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
• July 28 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
• September 8 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
• September 14 - Louis Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
• October 18 - Mongkut, Rama IV, King of Thailand (d. 1868)
• 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 10 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
• December 13 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
• December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
• December 23 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)

Unknown dates

• Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (d. 1886)
• James Mackay (New Zealand politician)

See also Category: 1804 births.

Deaths

January - June

• January 4 - Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, English 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 21 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'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 15 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)

July - December

• July 12 - Alexander Hamilton, American statesman (killed in a duel)
• September 4 - Richard Somers, American naval officer (killed in battle)
• October 2 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (b. 1725)
• November 23 - Richard Graves, English writer (b. 1715)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1804 deaths.

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