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Year 1805 (MDCCCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1805

[edit] January - March

• January 11 - Michigan Territory is created.
• February 15 - The Harmony Society is officially formed.
• March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.
• March 4 - Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.

[edit] April - July

• April 27 - United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").
• April 29 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck is appointed as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic by Napoleon.
• June 1 - Luigi Boccherini is buried in Italy after being found dead on May 28.
• June - War ends between Tripoli and the United States of America.
• June 4 - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony is held at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
• June 11 - Detroit burns to the ground; most of the city is destroyed.
• June 13 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming they are heading in the right direction.

June 13: Lewis & Clark.

• July 9 - Muhammad Ali Pasha founds his dynasty in Egypt.

[edit] October - December

• October 17 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon after being surrounded.
• October 21 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Trafalgar: British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain; however, Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.

October 21 - Battle of Trafalgar.

December 2: Napoleon wins Battle of Austerlitz.

• November 7 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean.
• November 11 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Dürenstein: 8,000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
• November 16 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Schöngrabern: - Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
• November 26 - The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened.
• December 2 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• December 26 - The Peace of Pressburg is signed between France and Austria.

[edit] Undated

• James Squire becomes the first person in Australia to cultivate Hops.
• The Horse Patrol, a mounted law enforcement force, is founded in London, England.
• King Anouvong becomes ruler of Vientiane.
• Napoleon annuls the 10-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar; he also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.
• Sweden declares war on France.
• Simón Bolívar dedicates himself to liberating Venezuela from Spanish rule.

[edit] Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Third Coalition

[edit] Births

[edit] January - June

• January 8 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
• January 27 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
• March 3 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
• March 23 - Sears Cook Walker, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1853)
• April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
• June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman, and writer (d. 1872)

[edit] July - December

• July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (d. 1859)
• August 4 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
• August 29 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
• November 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
• November 28 - John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (d. 1852)
• December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
• December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) (d. 1844)

See also Category: 1805 births.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

• January 9 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
• January 18 - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1730)
• January 23 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunication pioneer (b. 1763)
• February 25 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
• March 4 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
• May 7 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
• May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (b. 1759)
• May 25 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
• May 28 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
• June 19 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)

[edit] July - December

• August 3 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
• August 28 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
• October 5 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
• October 21 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
• December 23 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)

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