Today in History for Year 1807

Months in Year 1807: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 33 of 33

Jan 1st - Curacao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
Jan 12th - Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Neth, 150 die
Jan 20th - Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
Jan 28th - London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
Feb 3rd - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
Feb 8th - Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
Feb 9th - French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
Feb 10th - US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
Feb 19th - British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
Feb 19th - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
Feb 24th - 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England
Mar 2nd - Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
Mar 5th - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
Mar 25th - 1st railway passenger service began in England
Mar 25th - British Parliament abolishes slave trade
Mar 25th - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
May 22nd - Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Va (acquitted)
May 22nd - Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
Jun 14th - Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
Jun 19th - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
Jun 22nd - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
Jun 26th - Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
Jun 28th - British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
Jul 7th - France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
Jul 9th - Treaties of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I.
Commercial Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton Aug 17th - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
Sep 1st - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
Sep 2nd - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
Sep 4th - Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
Sep 14th - Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
Nov 27th - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
Dec 17th - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
Dec 22nd - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 58 of 58

Jan 2nd - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer
Jan 4th - Baltasar Saldoni, composer
Jan 6th - Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
Jan 6th - Ludwig Erk, composer
Jan 6th - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
Jan 11th - Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Jan 11th - Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
Jan 12th - Jan T Beelen, Dutch/Belgian bible expert
Jan 13th - Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Jan 16th - Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
Jan 19th - Robert E Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General in Chief, (d. 1870)
Feb 1st - William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Feb 3rd - Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Feb 6th - Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer
Feb 8th - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman
Feb 8th - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
Feb 10th - Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Feb 13th - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters)
Feb 15th - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
Confederate General Robert E Lee (Jan 19th) Feb 16th - Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
Feb 25th - George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
Feb 27th - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
Mar 1st - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
Mar 7th - Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist)
Mar 14th - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
Apr 1st - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic
Apr 24th - Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
May 1st - John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)
May 11th - Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century black Shakespearian actor (Othello)
May 15th - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
May 24th - Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature
May 24th - Thomas Duncan, painter
May 28th - Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra
May 28th - Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
Jun 2nd - Robert Fuhrer, composer
Jun 6th - Adrien Francois Servais, composer
Jun 11th - James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
Jun 30th - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
Jul 1st - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University
Jul 4th - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
Jul 12th - Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
Jul 22nd - Karolina Pawlowa, writer
Aug 8th - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
Aug 11th - David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849
Aug 18th - Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
Sep 5th - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
Sep 11th - Ignaz Lachner, composer
Sep 28th - Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, US geologist/geographer/meteorologist
Oct 3rd - Heinrich Panofka, composer
Oct 4th - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
Oct 12th - John Tideman, Dutch Remonstrant theologist
Oct 21st - Hanri Reber, composer
Oct 21st - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer
Oct 30th - James Samuel Wadsworth, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Nov 16th - Francois Hainl, composer
Dec 17th - John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
Dec 20th - Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Dec 22nd - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 5th - Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79
Jan 12th - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71
Jan 12th - Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60
Feb 5th - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80
Feb 6th - John Reid, composer, dies at 85
Feb 18th - August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53
Feb 18th - S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75
Feb 23rd - Francois Guichard, composer, dies at 61
Mar 4th - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
Mar 11th - Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41
Apr 1st - Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
Apr 1st - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
Apr 4th - Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies
Apr 9th - John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery, dies at 45
Apr 18th - Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731)
May 10th - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
May 13th - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
May 17th - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
May 18th - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
Jul 13th - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
Aug 15th - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
Aug 16th - Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72
Sep 12th - Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71
Sep 14th - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
Nov 2nd - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
Nov 23rd - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
Nov 24th - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
Dec 3rd - Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies
Dec 4th - Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston
Dec 19th - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
Dec 21st - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)