Historical Events In 1805

May 04 Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in the Bronx NY

May 26 Lewis & Clark first see Rocky Mountains

May 26 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy

May 26 The emperor Napoleon crowns himself with the old iron crown of the Lombard kings May 26 in the cathedral at Milan, he appoints his stepson Eugène Beauharnais viceroy June 7, but a Third Coalition mobilizes against him; Austria, Russia, and Sweden make alliances with Britain, while Napoleon gains support from Spain, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Hesse, and Nassau

May 26 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned King of Italy

May 26 Napolean Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy

Jan 11 The Michigan Territory of the U.S. was created.

Apr 27 Naval forces capture Derne, Tripoli; raise first U.S. flag over foreign soil

Apr 27 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli

Apr 02 The birth of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of fairy tales

Nov 07 Lewis and Clark sighthte Pacific Ocean

Nov 25 The opera "Tha‹s" 1st American performance

Nov 20 The opera "Fidelio" is produced (Vienna)

Jun 05 The first recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)

Jun 21 Great Stoneface Mt found in NH

Dec 02 The Battle of Austerlitz gives Napoleon a resounding victory over combined Austrian and Russian forces

Dec 23 The birth of Joseph Smith, American Mormon leader

Dec 31 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism

Dec 26 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia

Dec 26 The Treaty of Pressburg December 26 ends hostilities between France and Austria

Oct 17 Napoleon breaks camp at Boulogne, proceeds by forced marches into Germany, forces the surrender October 17 at Ulm of a 30,000-man Austrian army under Baron Karl Mack von Leiberich, 53, and caps the victory by taking Vienna

Oct 23 Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340

Jul 08 American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England

Mar 03 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms