1804

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1801 1802 1803 - 1804 - 1805 1806 1807\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n*January 1 - End of French rule in Haiti\n*June 15 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire)\n*July 27 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.\n* February 14 - First Serbian Uprising began.\n* February 15 - New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery\n* February 16 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.\n* February 21 - The first self-propelling steam engine or steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales. Designed by Richard Trevithick, a Cornishman.\n* March 7 – John Wedgwood founds The Royal Horticultural Society\n* March 10 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.\n* March 20 – Execution of the Duc d’Enghien for plotting against Napoleon\n* March 21 - Code Napoleon adopted as French civil law\n* April 26 – Henry Addington resigns as Prime minister of the United Kingdom\n* May 10 - William Pit the younger begins his second term as a prime minister of the United Kingdom\n* May 14 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.\n* May 18 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.\n* August 20 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", whose purpose is to explore the Louisiana Purchase, suffers it first and last death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.\n* September 1 - German astronomer K. L. Harding discovers the asteroid Juno\n* November - Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election\n* November 30 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805).\n*December 12 - Spain declares war on Britain\n* December 2 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years (the Napoleonic Code is adopted).

• Pere Lachaise Cemetery a 118 acre (0.5 km²) cemetery in Paris, France was founded.

Ongoing events

\n* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

\n*March 14 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer\n* March 17 - Jim Bridger, pioneer (+ 1881)\n*July 1 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), writer \n*July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer\n*July 28 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German Philosopher\n*November 23 - Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States \n*December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, British politician, writer

Deaths

\n*February 12 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher\n*September 4 - Richard Somers, American naval officer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n