Historical Events In 1804

Mar 04   The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising in the year 1804.   

Mar 07   John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies in the year 1804.   

Mar 14   Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March) on this day in history.   

Mar 14   In the year 1804 the birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer   

Mar 16   Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Mar 17   James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance in the year 1804.   

Mar 17   On this day in history johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres   

Mar 17   On this day in history johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres   

Mar 20   A royalist conspiracy against France's first consul Napoleon Bonaparte comes to light in February One conspirator, Gen Jean Victor Moreau, 41, escapes to America, but the duc d'Enghien Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon Condé, 32, is seized in Baden, condemned by a commission acting under Bonaparte's orders without regard to law, and shot at Vincennes the night of March 20 in the year 1804.   

Mar 20   Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 in the year 1804.   

Mar 20   Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 in the year 1804.   

Mar 21   In the year 1804 after four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code."   

Mar 21   French civil Code of Napoleon adopted in the year 1804.   

Mar 26   Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana on this day in history.   

Mar 26   On this day in history territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase   

Mar 28   Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 on this day in history.   

Mar 29   Thousands of whites are massacred in Haiti following a declaration by Governor General Jean-Jacques Dessalines in the year 1804.   

Mar 29   On this day in history thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti   

Mar 30   Salomon Sulzer, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 02   On this day in history forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.   

Apr 04   Joseph Fischhof, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 05   High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil on this day in history.   

Apr 09   In the year 1804 jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies   

Apr 22   Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola in the year 1804.   

Apr 23   In the year 1804 guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)   

Apr 24   Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) in the year 1804.   

Apr 28   In the year 1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony   

Apr 28   On this day in history hans Gram, composer, dies at 49   

Apr 30   On this day in history hague's Theater opens   

May 05   In the year 1804 jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise)   

May 06   Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816) on this day in history.   

May 06   Suriname sold to English (until February 1816) on this day in history.   

May 12   Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904) in the year 1804.   

May 14   Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast in the year 1804.   

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Jan 12   In the year 1804 birth of hippolyte Monpou, composer   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)   

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of john Park, composer   

Jan 16   Karl August Krebs, composer was born in the year 1804.   

Jan 20   On this day in history birth of eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)   

Jan 21   In the year 1804 birth of eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)   

Jan 31   Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic was born on this day in history.   

Feb 02   In the year 1804 birth of leopold Eugen Mechura, composer   

Jan 04   In the year 1804 charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies   

Jan 15   Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725) died on this day in history.   

Feb 02   In the year 1804 caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62   

Feb 06   Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70 in the year 1804.   

Feb 12   On this day in history immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79   

Mar 01   In the year 1804 wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63   

Mar 04   Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies in the year 1804.   

Mar 07   In the year 1804 john Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies