Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Christoph Franz von Buseck was the Roman Catholic bishop of Bamberg and the last Prince-Bishop of Bamberg.
Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (born 1724)
General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best know…
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1738)
Captain John Cooke was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Cooke is best known for his death in hand-t…
John Cooke, English captain (born 1763)
Captain George Duff was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was killed by a cannonball at…
George Duff, Scottish captain (born 1764)
Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics led to multiple decisi…
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (born 1758)
The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the 1801–1815 Barbary Wars, in which the United States fought a…
First Barbary War: U
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First…
Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured the British-held Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after t…
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri Ri
The War of the Third Coalition was a European conflict lasting from 1805 to 1806 and was the first conflict of the Napoleonic Wars. During the war, France and its client states und…
War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day…
Yusuf Karamanli, Caramanli or Qaramanli or al-Qaramanli, (1766–1838) was the longest-reigning Pasha of the Karamanli dynasty of Ottoman Tripolitania. He is noted for his role in th…
Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city
Francis II and I was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835. He was also King of Germany, Hung…
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
Charles Goodyear was a banker, attorney, and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a United States representative from 1845 to 1847 and 1865 to 1867.
Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (died 1876)
William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what be…
William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate
Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad was a Finnish provincial treasurer of Tavastia and the host of the Rapola Manor in Sääksmäki. His grandson was Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, the future t…
Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President of
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise …
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His co…
Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (died 1857)
Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist.
Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (died 1884)
Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László, was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vie…
Stephan Endlicher, Austrian botanist, numismatist, and sinologist (died 1849)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after t…
The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the…
New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document
The Burr–Hamilton duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the U.S. vice president at the time, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the T…
A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the…
Juno is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer Karl Harding. It is tied with three other asteroids as the thir…
3 Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after t…
The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll…