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July 11: U.S. Vice PresidentAaron Burr kills former Treasury SecretaryHamilton . Illustration after painting "Ein Ehrenhandel" by Joseph Munsch (Austrian, 1832-1896)[ 1] December 2:The Coronation of Napoleon Said Bin Sultan takes office as sultan ofMuscat and Oman 1804 by topic Humanities By country Other topics Lists of leaders Birth and death categories Establishments and disestablishments categories Works category
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1804 (MDCCCIV ) was aleap year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar , the 1804th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 4th year of the19th century , and the 5th year of the1800s decade. As of the start of 1804, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 1 –Haiti gains independence from France, becoming the first independent Black state in the New World.February 4 – TheSokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa.February 14 – TheFirst Serbian uprising begins theSerbian Revolution . By 1817, thePrincipality of Serbia will have proclaimed self-rule from theOttoman Empire , the first nation-state in Europe to do so.February 15 –New Jersey becomes the last of the northern United States to abolishslavery .[ 2] February 16 –First Barbary War :Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigateUSS Philadelphia atTripoli to deny her further use by the captors.February 18 –Ohio University is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly.February 20 –Hobart is established in its permanent location inVan Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania) as a Britishpenal colony .[ 3] February 21 –Cornishman Richard Trevithick 's newly builtPenydarren steam locomotive operates on theMerthyr Tramroad , betweenPenydarren inMerthyr Tydfil andAbercynon inSouth Wales , following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails.[ 4] February 22 –April 22 –1804 Haiti massacre , an ethnic cleansing with the goal of eradicating the white population on Haiti.[ 5] March 4 –March 5 – TheCastle Hill convict rebellion breaks out inNew South Wales , led by Irishconvicts in Australia .[ 6] March 7 – In Britain:March 10 –Louisiana Purchase ,Three Flags Day : InSt. Louis , a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership ofLouisiana Territory from France to the United States.March 17 –Friedrich Schiller 's playWilhelm Tell Weimar , under the direction ofJohann Wolfgang von Goethe .March 21 – TheNapoleonic Code is adopted as Frenchcivil law .October 5 –Action of 5 October 1804 : War between Spain and the United Kingdom is triggered by the battle between four British warships (Indefatigable ,Medusa ,Amphion andLively ) and four Spanish frigates (Medee ,Fama ,Clara andMercedes ), all carrying treasure and merchandise. Captain Graham Moore ofIndefatigable informs Spanish Admiral Jose Bustamante of his orders to detain the treasure-laden ships and, "not receiving a satisfactory answer, an Action commenced";[ 11] La Mercedes is sunk and the other three ships surrender.October 8 –Jean-Jacques Dessalines holds his coronation as Jean-Jacques I, Emperor ofHaiti .[ 12] November 3 – TheTreaty of St. Louis is signed byQuashquame andWilliam Henry Harrison ; controversy surrounding the treaty eventually causes theSauk people to ally with the British during theWar of 1812 , and is the main cause of theBlack Hawk War of 1832.November 20 –Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman , starts to rule.November 30 – TheDemocratic-Republican -controlledUnited States Senate beginsan impeachment trial againstFederalist -partisanSupreme Court of the United States JusticeSamuel Chase , on charges of political bias (he is acquitted by theUnited States Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805).December 2 –Coronation of Napoleon I : At the cathedral ofNotre Dame de Paris ,Napoleon crowns himself as the firstEmperor of the French in a thousand years. Witnessing this,Simón Bolívar dedicates himself to liberatingVenezuela from Spanish rule.December 3 –Thomas Jefferson defeatsCharles C. Pinckney in theUnited States presidential election .December 12 – Spain declares war on the United Kingdom.Eliza R. Snow J. L. Runeberg January 1 –James Fannin , Texas revolutionary (d.1836 )January 9 January 10 –Élie Frédéric Forey , French general,Marshal of France (d.1872 )January 20 –Eugène Sue , French novelist (d.1857 )January 21 –Eliza Roxcy Snow , American poet (d.1887 )February 5 –J. L. Runeberg , Finnish national poet (d.1877 )[ 15] February 7 –John Deere , American industrialist (d.1886 )February 13 –Claude-Étienne Minié , French army officer and weapon inventor (d.1879 )February 29 –Carl von Rokitansky , Czech physician and pathologist (d.1878 )March 8 –Alvan Clark , American telescope manufacturer (d.1887 )March 14 –Johann Strauss Senior , Austrian composer (d.1849 )[ 16] March 17 –Jim Bridger , American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)March 20 –Neal Dow , mayor of Portland, Maine and Father of Prohibition (d.1897 )April 3 –Lucien Baudens , French military surgeon (d.1857 )April 4 –Andrew Nicholl , Northern Irish painter (d.1886 )April 18 –Robert Davidson , Scottish locomotive pioneer (d.1894 )[ 17] April 24 –Chō Kōran , Japanese poet, painter (d.1879 )April 26 –Charles Goodyear , American politician (d. 1876)May 4 –Margaretta Riley , British botanic (d.1899 )May 13 –Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad , Swedo-Finnish treasurer ofTavastia province , manor host, and paternal grandfather of PresidentP. E. Svinhufvud (d.1866 )[ 18] [ 19] May 16 –Elizabeth Peabody , Transcendental activist, educator (d.1894 )June 1 June 24 –Willard Richards , American religious leader (d.1854 )Richard Owen Ludwig Feuerbach Jane Irwin Harrison Franklin Pierce Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Benjamin Disraeli July 1 –George Sand , French novelist (d.1876 )July 4 –Nathaniel Hawthorne , American writer (d.1864 )July 6 –Jerónimo Carrión , 8th President of Ecuador (d.1873 )July 14 –Ludwig von Benedek , Austrian general (d.1881 )July 20 –Richard Owen , English anatomist, paleontologist, and zoologist (d.1892 )July 23 –Jane Irwin Harrison ,de facto First Lady of the United States (d.1846 )July 28 –Ludwig Feuerbach , German philosopher (d.1872 )September 5 –William Alexander Graham ,United States Senator fromNorth Carolina (1840–1843),Confederate States Senator (1864–1865) (d.1875 )September 8 –Eduard Mörike , German poet (d.1875 )September 11 –Mercedes Marín del Solar , international Chilean poet and reform educator (d.1866 )September 14 September 28 –Alpheus Felch , American governor and senator from Michigan (d.1896 )October 18 –Mongkut , Rama IV,King of Siam (d.1868 )October 24 –Wilhelm Eduard Weber , German physicist (d.1891 )November 18 –Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora , Italian general and statesman (d.1878 )November 23 –Franklin Pierce , 14thPresident of the United States (d.1869 )December 7 –Noah Haynes Swayne ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1884 )December 10 –Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi , German mathematician (d.1851 )December 13 –Joseph Howe , Canadian politician (d.1873 )December 16 –Viktor Bunyakovsky , Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d.1889 )December 21 –Benjamin Disraeli ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868; 1874–1880) (d.1881 )December 23 –Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve , French literary critic (d.1869 )Charlotte Lennox Joseph Priestley Immanuel Kant January 4 –Charlotte Ramsey Lennox , British author and poet (b. 1727)January 15 –Dru Drury , English entomologist (b. 1725)February 3 –Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet , English politician (b. 1719)February 6 –Joseph Priestley , British chemist (b. 1733)February 7 –William Bingham , American Continental congressman, senator for Pennsylvania (b. 1752)February 12 –Immanuel Kant , German philosopher (b. 1724)March 3 –Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo , painter (b. 1727)March 13 –Damodar Pande , Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1752)March 16 –Henrik Gabriel Porthan Finnish writer and historian (b. 1739)March 21 –Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)March 30 –Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie , Marshal of France (b. 1718)April 9 –Jacques Necker , French statesman (b. 1732)April 11 –Miklós Küzmics ,Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest (b. 1737)April 15 –Jean-Charles Pichegru , French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)May 25 –Johann Joachim Spalding , German theologian (b. 1714)July 12 –Alexander Hamilton , American statesman and Founding Father (killed in a duel) (b. 1755 or 1757)September 4 –Richard Somers , American naval officer (killed in battle) (b. 1778)September 20 –Pierre Méchain , French astronomer (b. 1744)October 2 –Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot , French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)October 8 –Thomas Cochran (judge) , Canadian judge (b. 1777)October 29 –Sarah Crosby , the first femaleMethodist preacher (b. 1729)November 1 –Johann Friedrich Gmelin , German naturalist (b. 1748)November 5 –Maria Anna Adamberger , Austrian actress (b. 1752)November 18 –Philip Schuyler , general in theAmerican Revolution , aUnited States senator from New York, father ofAngelica Schuyler Church andElizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , father-in-law ofAlexander Hamilton (b. 1733)November 23 –Richard Graves , English writer (b. 1715)December 18 –Jacob ben Wolf Kranz , Lithuanian maggid (b. c. 1740)December 25 –Contarina Barbarigo , famous Venetian noble.^ Internationale Kunstausstellung (Munich, Germany); Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft, organizer; Verein Bildender Künstler Münchens "Secession", organizer (1883).Illustrierter Katalog der internationalen Kunstausstellung im königl. 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