Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Ferenc Deák de Kehida was a Hungarian statesman and Minister of Justice. He was known as "The Wise Man of the Nation" and one of the greatest figures of Hungary's liberal movement.
Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician (died 1876)
Maria Doolaeghe was a Flemish writer.
Maria Doolaeghe, Flemish novelist (died 1884)
Joseph Aloysius Hansom was an English architect working principally in the Gothic Revival style. He invented the Hansom cab and founded the eminent architectural journal The Builde…
Joseph Hansom, English architect and publisher, designed Birmingham Town Hall (died 1882)
Matthew Thornton was an Irish-born Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.
Matthew Thornton, Irish-American judge and politician (born 1714)
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782…
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (born 1741)
François Devienne was a French composer of the Classical period and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory.
François Devienne, French flute player and composer (born 1759)
Gian Francesco Albani was a Roman Catholic Cardinal. He was a member of the Albani family.
Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (born 1719)
Nicolas Thomas Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer best known for his explorations of Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean. He carried a few…
Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (born 1754)
Franz Xaver Süssmayr or Süßmayr, also anglicized as Suessmayr, was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed W…
Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer and director (born 1766)
Robert Emmet was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt in Ireland to…
Robert Emmet, Irish republican (born 1780)
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement t…
Samuel Adams, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (born 1722)
Thomas Paliser Russell was a founding member, and leading organiser, of the United Irishmen marked by his radical-democratic and millenarian convictions. A member of the movement's…
Thomas Russell, executed Irish rebel (born 1767)
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, KG PC, known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British Whig politician from t…
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1721)
L'Aigle is a L6 meteorite that fell on 26 April 1803 over L'Aigle, Lower Normandy, France, during a meteor shower. Before the event, it was generally believed that meteorites were …
Thousands of meteor fragments fell over L'Aigle, France, becoming a milestone in the understanding of meteorites
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Miss…
The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 80 million francs, or less than US$
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. For most of its existence, it comprised the realms of the Pe…
Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive…
The Law of 20 May 1802 was a decree passed by First Consul Napoleon of the French First Republic on 20 May 1802 that reinstated slavery. It decreed the reinstatement and continuati…
By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the F
Charles Emmanuel IV was King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 16 October 1796 until 1802, when he abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I.
King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel
Gia Long, born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh (阮暎), was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last dynasty of Vietnam, which would rule the unified territories that …
Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
The Kingdom of Sardinia, also referred to as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica among other names, was a kingdom in Southern Europe from the late 13th until the mid-19th century. …
France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
The Wahhabi sack of Karbala occurred on 21 April 1802, under the rule of Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, the second ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah, where approximately 12,000 Wahh…
Twelve thousand Wahhabis sack Karbala, killing over three thousand inhabitants
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 signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the Fren
Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia and commonly known as simply Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on…
Washington, D
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 founds the Legion of Honour