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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 21   On this day in history 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 in the year 1804.  

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

Mar 26   In the year 1804 territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase  

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

Mar 29   On this day in history thousands of whites are massacred in Haiti following a declaration by Governor General Jean-Jacques Dessalines.  

Mar 29   On this day in history thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti  

Mar 30   Salomon Sulzer, composer in the year 1804.  

Apr 02   In the year 1804 forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.  

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 in the year 1804.  

Apr 22   In the year 1804 gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola  

Apr 23   Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium) in the year 1804.  

Apr 24   Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1804 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) in the year 1804.  

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

May 12   On this day in history robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904)  

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   In the year 1804 birth of john Park, composer  

Jan 16   On this day in history birth of karl August Krebs, composer  

Jan 20   Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857) was born on this day in history.  

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   Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies in the year 1804.  

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 in the year 1804.  

Feb 06   On this day in history 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   Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1804.  

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

Mar 07   John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies in the year 1804.