Historical Events In 1804

Jul 11 Alex Hamilton killed by VP Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken

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

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

Mar 26 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana

Mar 14 The birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer

Mar 28 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804

Mar 17 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

Mar 26 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | Next Page »