Today in History for Year 1805

Months in Year 1805: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 11th - Michigan Territory organizes
Feb 15th - Harmony Society is officially formed.
Mar 3rd - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
Apr 7th - Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
Apr 27th - US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
May 4th - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
May 26th - Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
May 26th - Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
Jun 4th - Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
Jun 5th - 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
Jun 10th - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
Jun 21st - Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
Jul 8th - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
Jul 26th - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
Sep 4th - 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published
Sep 30th - Napoleons army draws into the Rhine
Oct 14th - Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
Oct 21st - Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed
Oct 23rd - Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
Nov 7th - Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
Nov 11th - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
Nov 16th - Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French
Nov 18th - 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
Nov 19th - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent
Nov 20th - Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
Nov 25th - Opera "Thaïs" 1st American performance
Nov 26th - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
Dec 2nd - Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
Dec 9th - Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
Dec 26th - France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
Dec 26th - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
Dec 31st - End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 72 of 72

Jan 4th - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
Jan 8th - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
Jan 8th - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
Jan 13th - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
Jan 27th - Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision)
Jan 27th - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
Jan 27th - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
Feb 1st - Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
Feb 3rd - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
Feb 4th - Georg Andreas Henkel, composer
Feb 4th - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood)
Feb 13th - David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
Feb 13th - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
Feb 18th - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
Feb 20th - Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer
Feb 21st - David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
Mar 3rd - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
Mar 5th - Theodore Labarre, composer
Mar 16th - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
Mar 30th - Adrien de La Fage, composer
Author Hans Christian Andersen (Apr 2nd) Apr 2nd - Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
Apr 7th - Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869
Apr 30th - William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
May 14th - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
Jun 8th - Luigi Ricci, composer
Jun 14th - Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
Jun 15th - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
Jun 21st - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
Jun 21st - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)
Jun 22nd - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Il Apostolato Popolare)
Jun 27th - Stephen Elvey, composer
Jun 29th - Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
Jul 5th - Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865)
Jul 9th - Henry John Gauntlett, composer
Jul 26th - Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
Jul 29th - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
Aug 4th - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
Aug 8th - Antoon Jurgens, Dutch margarine manufacturer
Aug 9th - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
Aug 11th - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
Aug 18th - Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
Aug 23rd - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
Aug 29th - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
Aug 30th - Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist
Sep 2nd - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
Sep 6th - Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)
Sep 18th - Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Sep 23rd - Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist
Sep 25th - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
Sep 27th - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
Sep 30th - Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General (Union volunteers)
Oct 23rd - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
Oct 23rd - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
Oct 28th - John Thomson, composer
Nov 1st - Alessandro Nini, composer
Nov 7th - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
Nov 14th - Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
Nov 19th - Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
Nov 22nd - Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
Nov 28th - John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
Dec 6th - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
Dec 6th - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
Dec 10th - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
Dec 10th - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
Dec 10th - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
Dec 12th - Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
Dec 21st - Thomas Graham, British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
Dec 22nd - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (Dec 23rd) Dec 23rd - Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vermont, founder (Mormon Church), (d. 1844)
Dec 26th - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer
Dec 28th - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer
Dec 31st - Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 9th - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
Jan 17th - Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73
Jan 19th - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43
Jan 23rd - Vaclav Pichl, composer, dies at 63
Jan 23rd - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
Jan 24th - Giacomo Conti, composer, dies at 50
Feb 25th - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
Feb 27th - Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57
Mar 4th - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
Mar 14th - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
Apr 6th - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56
Apr 26th - Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55
May 7th - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
May 9th - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45
May 16th - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
May 25th - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
May 28th - Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Ital composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62
Jun 19th - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
Jul 1st - Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60
Jul 9th - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76
Aug 1st - Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51
Aug 3rd - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
Aug 28th - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
Aug 31st - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer, dies at 95
Oct 5th - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
Oct 13th - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer, dies at 70
Oct 21st - Admiral Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
Oct 21st - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54
Nov 8th - Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
Dec 10th - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43
Dec 23rd - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
Dec 27th - Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65