Historical Events In 1804

Jan 01   Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)   

Jan 01   Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaims independence of Haiti from France   

Jan 04   Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies   

Jan 05   Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement.   

Jan 05   Ohio legislature passes inaugural laws restricting free blacks movement   

Jan 12   Hippolyte Monpou, composer   

Jan 14   John Park, composer.   

Jan 16   Karl August Krebs, composer   

Jan 30   Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River   

Jan 31   British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao   

Jan 31   Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic.   

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

Feb 02   Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer   

Feb 05   Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet   

Feb 06   Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70   

Feb 06   Ragnerus L van Andringa de Kempenaer, Dutch officer/swindler.   

Feb 07   John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements   

Feb 12   Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79   

Feb 14   Karadjordje leads the inaugural Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire   

Feb 15   New Jersey is recorded as becoming last northern state to abolish slavery   

Feb 16   Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."   

Feb 16   Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it   

Feb 17   Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883   

Feb 18   1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered.   

Feb 21   1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales   

Feb 21   inaugural locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for inaugural time, in Wales   

Feb 21   The inaugural ever steam train to run on rails is demonstrated by Richard Trevithick   

Feb 23   Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII   

Feb 24   London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.   

Feb 25   Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus.   

Feb 26   Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad.   

Mar 01   Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63   

Mar 04   Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies   

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.   

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Jan 12   Hippolyte monpou: Composer   

Jan 13   Paul gavarni: French caricaturist   

Jan 14   John park: Composer   

Jan 16   Karl august krebs: Composer   

Jan 20   Eugène sue: French novelist    

Jan 21   Eliza roxcy snow: American poet    

Jan 31   Jozsef bajza: Hungarian author/poet/critic   

Feb 02   Leopold eugen mechura: Composer   

Jan 04   Charlotte lennox: English novelist (the female quixote),    

Jan 15   Dru drury: English entomologist (b. 1725)   

Feb 02   Caesar rodney: Us judge (signed declar of independence),   

Feb 06   Joseph priestley: Engl/us theologist/philosopher/chemist,    

Feb 12   Immanuel kant: German philosopher (zum ewigen frieden),    

Mar 01   Wolfgang nicolaus haueisen: Composer,   

Mar 04   Karl leopold rollig: Composer,   

Mar 07   John wedgwood: Founder (royal horticulture society),