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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Mar 14   On this day in history 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   In the year 1804 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   On this day in history johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres   

Mar 20   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 on this day in history.   

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

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." in the year 1804.   

Mar 21   On this day in history french civil Code of Napoleon adopted   

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

Mar 26   Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 29   Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti in the year 1804.   

Mar 30   In the year 1804 salomon Sulzer, composer   

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

Apr 04   On this day in history joseph Fischhof, composer   

Apr 05   High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil on this day in history.   

Apr 09   In the year 1804 jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies   

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   Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) in the year 1804.   

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

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

May 12   In the year 1804 robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904)   

May 14   In the year 1804 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   On this day in history birth of paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)   

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of john Park, composer   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 31   Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic was born on this day in history.   

Feb 02   Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer was born in the year 1804.   

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

Jan 15   In the year 1804 death of dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)   

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   In the year 1804 immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79   

Mar 01   Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

Mar 04   Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies in the year 1804.   

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