Page 2: 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   In the year 1804 the birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer   

Mar 16   Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Mar 17   On this day in history james Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance   

Mar 17   On this day in history johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres   

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

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   Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

Mar 20   Neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 in the year 1804.   

Mar 21   After four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code." on this day in history.   

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   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   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   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 in the year 1804.   

Apr 05   On this day in history 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   On this day in history guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)   

Apr 24   In the year 1804 thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)   

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

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

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

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

May 06   In the year 1804 suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)   

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

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   Hippolyte Monpou, composer was born in the year 1804.   

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   Karl August Krebs, composer was born in the year 1804.   

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

Jan 21   Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887) was born on this day in history.   

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

Feb 02   In the year 1804 birth of leopold Eugen Mechura, composer   

Jan 04   On this day in history charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies   

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   Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1804.   

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