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 in the year 1804.   

Mar 14   Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March) on this day in history.   

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   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   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   In the year 1804 ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47   

Mar 20   On this day in history neal Dow, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

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   French civil Code of Napoleon adopted on this day in history.   

Mar 26   On this day in history congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana   

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

Mar 28   In the year 1804 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   On this day in history thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti   

Mar 30   On this day in history 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   Joseph Fischhof, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

Apr 24   Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) in the year 1804.   

Apr 28   31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony in the year 1804.   

Apr 28   Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49 in the year 1804.   

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

May 05   Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise) on this day in history.   

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

May 14   Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast in the year 1804.   

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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   John Park, composer was born in the year 1804.   

Jan 16   Karl August Krebs, composer was born in the year 1804.   

Jan 20   Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857) was born in the year 1804.   

Jan 21   On this day in history birth of eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)   

Jan 31   In the year 1804 birth of jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic   

Feb 02   On this day in history birth of leopold Eugen Mechura, composer   

Jan 04   Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 06   On this day in history joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70   

Feb 12   On this day in history 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   On this day in history john Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies