Page 2: 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   John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies on this day in history.   

Mar 14   In the year 1804 johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March)   

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

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

Mar 20   In the year 1804 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   Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 in the year 1804.   

Mar 20   Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history french civil Code of Napoleon adopted   

Mar 26   Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana in the year 1804.   

Mar 26   Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase in the year 1804.   

Mar 28   Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 29   In the year 1804 thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti   

Mar 30   Salomon Sulzer, composer on this day in history.   

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

Apr 04   Joseph Fischhof, composer in the year 1804.   

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

Apr 09   On this day in history jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies   

Apr 22   Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola on this day in history.   

Apr 23   Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium) on this day in history.   

Apr 24   In the year 1804 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 in the year 1804.   

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

May 05   On this day in history jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise)   

May 06   Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816) on this day in history.   

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) in the year 1804.   

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

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Jan 12   On this day in history birth of hippolyte Monpou, composer   

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

Jan 14   In the year 1804 birth of john Park, composer   

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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1804 death of dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)   

Feb 02   In the year 1804 caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 04   In the year 1804 karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies   

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