Explore 394 historical events from 1800–1809.
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer was a Dutch politician and historian.
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (died 1876)
Antoine Augustin Cournot was a French philosopher and mathematician who contributed to the development of economics.
Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1877)
Charl (Sarel) Arnoldus Cilliers was a Voortrekker leader and a preacher. With Andries Pretorius, he led the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1…
Sarel Cilliers, South African preacher and activist (died 1871)
Marie Catherine Laveau was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, a herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, also practiced root…
Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (died 1881)
Prince Nikolai or Nicholas Vasilyevich Repnin was a Russian statesman and general from the Repnin princely family who played a key role in the dissolution of the Polish–Lithuanian …
Nicholas Repnin, Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1734)
William Heberden FRS was an English physician.
William Heberden, English physician and scholar (born 1710)
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria was Elector of Cologne and Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights from 1780 until his death. Influenced by Enlightenment ideals, he sought to i…
Maximilian Francis, archduke of Austria (born 1756)
Jean-Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 18…
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovered the first of his 37 comets, more than any other person in history.
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was an American minister and politician who was the first speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791 and again fro…
Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born
Benedict Arnold was an American-born British military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and ros…
Benedict Arnold, American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (born 1741)
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy
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: The Barbary corsairs of Tripoli declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff in fr
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: A Royal Navy squadron failed to eliminate a smaller French Navy squadron at Algeciras…
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: A squadron of British ships of the line defeated a larger squadron of Spanish and French…
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: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship…
The Septinsular Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Islands, was an oligarchic republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovere…
The Septinsular Republic is established
The Library of Congress is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the de facto national library of t…
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 t
The 6th United States Congress was the 6th meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It …
The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of moving the Federal government of the United States from Phil
David Thompson was a British fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 k…
David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba
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…
The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and
The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) was the second war between revolutionary France and a coalition of European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and includin…
War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria
The War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802) was the second war between revolutionary France and a coalition of European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria and Russia, and includin…
War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria
The National Congress Battalions, also known as the Truppe di Campagna, was an irregular military set up in Malta just after the Maltese rebellion against French rule in September …
The Maltese National Congress Battalions are disbanded by British Civil Commissioner Alexander Ball.
Louis Christophe François Hachette was a French publisher who established a Paris publishing house designed to produce books and other material to improve the system of school inst…
Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (died 1864)