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1804

Years: 1801 1802 1803 - 1804 - 1805 1806 1807

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1804 in art 1804 in literature 1804 in music 1804 in science 1804 in sports List of state leaders in 1804 List of religious leaders in 1804

Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January 1 - End of French rule in Haiti
• 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 27 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.
• 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 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 26 – Henry Addington resigns as Prime minister of the United Kingdom
• May 10 - William Pit 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 France by the French Senate.
• August 20 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", whose purpose is to explore the Louisiana Purchase, suffers it first and last death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
• September 1 - German astronomer K. L. Harding discovers the asteroid Juno
• November - Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election
• 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 12 - Spain declares war on Britain
• December 2 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years (the Napoleonic Code is adopted).

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

Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

• March 14 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
• March 17 - Jim Bridger, pioneer (+ 1881)
• July 1 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), writer
• July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer
• July 28 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German Philosopher
• November 23 - Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States
• December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, British politician, writer

Deaths

• February 12 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
• September 4 - Richard Somers, American naval officer

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