Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, free…
Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (born 1731)
Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch military officer and colonial administrator who served as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1808 to 1811.
Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (born 1762)
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined unti…
Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (born 1731)
Daniel Morgan was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he la…
Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (born 1736)
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types…
Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (born 1771)
Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus was a German mathematician, scientist, and natural philosopher residing in the Russian Empire. Aepinus is best known for his researches, theoretical an…
Franz Aepinus, German-Russian philosopher and academic (born 1724)
Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He brought the tradition of radicalism in Russian li…
Alexander Radishchev, Russian author and critic (born 1749)
Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega was a Slovene mathematician, physicist, and artillery commissioned officer.
Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician and physicist (born 1754)
Suzanne Bélair, called Sanité Bélair,, was a Haitian revolutionary and lieutenant in the army of Toussaint Louverture.
Sanité Bélair, Haitian freedom fighter (born 1781)
Emmanuele Vitale was a Maltese notary, commander and statesman. During the Siege of Malta, he commanded 10,000 irregular Maltese soldiers.
Emmanuele Vitale, Maltese general and politician (born 1758)
Henry Hacking was an English-born sailor and explorer who was one of the first British colonists in New South Wales. He is generally regarded as being the person responsible for sh…
Henry Hacking killed the Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter Pemulwuy after Philip Gidley King ordered that he be b
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 …
Gia Long conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão, styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, politician and mercenary. Serving du…
Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo
Alexander I of Russia, nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first King of Congress Poland from 1815, and the Grand Duke of Finland from 1809 to his death i…
Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
Ambrose Dudley Mann was the first United States Assistant Secretary of State and a commissioner for the Confederate States of America.
Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1889)
William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States s…
William H
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 pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America
The First Battle of Algeciras was fought on 6 July 1801 between a Royal Navy squadron and a smaller French Navy squadron lying at anchor in the Spanish port of Algeciras during the…
First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of…
Sophie of Sweden was, by marriage, Grand Duchess of Baden as the wife of sovereign Grand Duke of Baden, Leopold.
Princess Sophie of Sweden, Swedish princess (died 1865)
Johann Georg Baiter was a Swiss philologist and textual critic.
Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and scholar (died 1887)
Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He …
Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1877)
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 makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36…
The Second Battle of Algeciras was fought on 12 July 1801 between a Royal Navy squadron and a larger Spanish and French squadron in the Gut of Gibraltar during the Algeciras campai…
British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
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 American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship…