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

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

Mar 14   The birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer in the year 1804.  

Mar 16   In the year 1804 francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75  

Mar 17   James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance on this day in history.  

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

Mar 17   In the year 1804 johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres  

Mar 20   On this day in history 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 20   In the year 1804 ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47  

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   In the year 1804 french civil Code of Napoleon adopted  

Mar 26   In the year 1804 congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana  

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

Mar 28   On this day in history ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804  

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

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

Mar 30   Salomon Sulzer, composer in the year 1804.  

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   In the year 1804 high Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.  

Apr 09   Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies on this day in history.  

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

Apr 23   On this day in history guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)  

Apr 24   On this day in history thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)  

Apr 28   On this day in history 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony  

Apr 28   Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

Apr 30   Hague's Theater opens in the year 1804.  

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

May 06   Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816) in the year 1804.  

May 06   On this day in history suriname sold to English (until February 1816)  

May 12   Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904) on this day in history.  

May 14   On this day in history lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast  

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

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

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

Jan 16   Karl August Krebs, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 21   Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887) was born in the year 1804.  

Jan 31   In the year 1804 birth of jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic  

Feb 02   In the year 1804 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 on this day in history.  

Feb 02   Caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62 in the year 1804.  

Feb 06   In the year 1804 joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70  

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

Mar 01   Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1804.  

Mar 04   Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies on this day in history.  

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