Historical Events In 1804

Mar 04   On this day in history 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.  

Mar 07   On this day in history john Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies  

Mar 14   Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March) in the year 1804.  

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

Mar 16   On this day in history francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75  

Mar 17   In the year 1804 james Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance  

Mar 17   Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres on this day in history.  

Mar 17   Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres in the year 1804.  

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   In the year 1804 neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897  

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 on this day in history.  

Mar 26   On this day in history congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana  

Mar 26   Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase on this day in history.  

Mar 28   Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 in the year 1804.  

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

Mar 29   Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti on this day in history.  

Mar 30   In the year 1804 salomon Sulzer, composer  

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

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

Apr 05   High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil in the year 1804.  

Apr 09   On this day in history 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   31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony on this day in history.  

Apr 28   In the year 1804 hans Gram, composer, dies at 49  

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

May 05   Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise) in the year 1804.  

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   In the year 1804 robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904)  

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

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Jan 12   Hippolyte Monpou, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 13   Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 14   John Park, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 16   In the year 1804 birth of karl August Krebs, composer  

Jan 20   In the year 1804 birth of eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)  

Jan 21   On this day in history birth of eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)  

Jan 31   Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic was born in the year 1804.  

Feb 02   On this day in history birth of leopold Eugen Mechura, composer  

Jan 04   Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies on this day in history.  

Jan 15   Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725) died in the year 1804.  

Feb 02   Caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 12   Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 in the year 1804.  

Mar 01   On this day in history wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63  

Mar 04   On this day in history karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies  

Mar 07   John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies on this day in history.