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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).

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Events of 1805

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Events of 1805

January - March

★ January 11 - Michigan Territory is created.

★ February 15 - Harmony Society officially formed.

★ March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.

★ March 4 - Thomas Jefferson sworn in as President of the United States, for second term.

April - June

★ 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.

★ May 26 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France crowns himself King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.

★ June 1 - Luigi Boccherini was 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 at the Horse Guards Parade in London.

★ 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. [1]

July - September

★ July 19 - French Topaze (Baudin) captures HMS Blanche (Mudge).

★ August 10 - HMS Phoenix (1783) (Baker) captures French Didon (Milius).

★ August 16 - HMS Raisonable 64 fights French Topaze 40.

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.



★ November 7 - Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean.

★ November 11 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 french troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior russian and austrian force.

★ November 16 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern - russian force under 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 - Peace of Pressburg between France and Austria.

Undated

★ Hops were first cultivated in Australia, by James Squire.

★ Horse Patrol, mounted law enforcement force, is founded in London, England.

★ King Anouvong becomes ruler of Vientiane.

★ Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.

★ Sweden declares war on France.

Ongoing events

★ Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Third Coalition.

Births

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)

★ April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)

★ June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman, and writer (d. 1872)

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 Mormonism (d. 1844)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 9 - Noble 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)

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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