Events Date 1804 | History by KabAstro

Bligh Reaches Curacao

Jan 31 British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao

Feb 14 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested, and exiled to the United States
Feb 14 Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire
Feb 15 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
Feb 16 US Navy Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after it is seized by pirates
Feb 18 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
Feb 18 Ohio legislature approves establishment of Ohio University at Athens as the 1st university in Ohio; first classes are held in 1809
Feb 21 The world’s first steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, runs for the first time along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Feb 24 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute

Feb 25 Thomas Jefferson nominated for US President at Democratic-Republican caucus

Feb 26 Vice-admiral William Bligh (of Bounty fame) ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
Feb 28 Charles Pichegru, French army general and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested
Mar 4 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.
Mar 9 Georges Cadoudal, Breton royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested
Mar 17 Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
Mar 21 Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law
Mar 26 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
Mar 26 Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
Mar 28 Ohio passes law restricting movement of Blacks
Mar 29 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
Apr 2 Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.
Apr 5 High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil

Apr 22 Gioachino Rossini performs as a singer in Imola, Italy, aged only 12 years old

Apr 28 31 British ships sail up Suriname river demanding transition colony from the Dutch
Apr 30 The New Hague Theater opens in The Hague, Netherlands
May 6 Suriname sold to Great Britain (until Feb 1816)

May 10 British Prime Minister Henry Addington resigns, replaced by William Pitt the Younger

May 14 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition sets out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson

May 18 Napoléon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate

Jun 15 Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, ratified in Congress

Jul 11 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

Jul 12 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr

Aug 3 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt lands at Bordeaux, France completing his 5 year expedition to Latin America

Aug 11 Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria
Aug 25 Alicia Thornton becomes first female jockey in England riding at Knavesmire in Yorkshire
Sep 1 Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
Sep 25 Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, becomes effective
Oct 2 Britain mobilizes to protect against French invasion
Oct 9 Hobart in Tasmania founded
Nov 18 Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
Nov 30 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins

Dec 2 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII

Dec 5 Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President, and George Clinton elected Vice-President
Dec 7 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute