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   On this day in history johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist/comp (Radetzky March)   

Mar 14   The birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer in the year 1804.   

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

Mar 17   James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance on this day in history.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1804 french civil Code of Napoleon adopted   

Mar 26   Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana on this day in history.   

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

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   Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal in the year 1804.   

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   Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies on this day in history.   

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

Apr 23   On this day in history guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)   

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

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

Apr 28   On this day in history hans Gram, composer, dies at 49   

Apr 30   In the year 1804 hague's Theater opens   

May 05   In the year 1804 jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise)   

May 06   On this day in history suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)   

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   Hippolyte Monpou, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 21   In the year 1804 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   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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1804 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   In the year 1804 wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63   

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