Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, 1st Baronet, was an English landowner, developer and Member of Parliament who founded the town of Fleetwood, in Lancashire, England. Born Peter Hesketh…
Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (died 1866)
Sir James Pennethorne was a British architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London.
James Pennethorne, English architect, designed Victoria Park (died 1871)
William Scamp was an English architect and engineer. After working on the reconstruction of Windsor Castle to designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, he was employed by the Admiralty from…
William Scamp, English architect and engineer (died 1872)
Heber Chase Kimball was an American religious leader who was a pioneer in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church …
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Benjamin Wright Raymond was an American politician who twice served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party.
Benjamin Wright Raymond, American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (died 1883)
Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode ra…
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (died 1868)
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer, and prominent member of the French liberal school.
Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (died 1850)
David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Nav…
David Farragut, American admiral (died 1870)
Johannes Peter Müller was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize …
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (died 1858)
George Bradshaw was an English cartographer, engraver, printer and publisher. A devout Quaker, he developed Bradshaw's Guide, a widely sold series of combined railway guides and ti…
George Bradshaw, English cartographer and publisher (died 1853)
Sir George Biddell Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer, as well as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1826 to 1828 and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 t…
George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and 7th Astronomer Royal (died 1892)
Fredrika Bremer was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and reformer. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and sh…
Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer and feminist (died 1865)
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)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. …
Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1862)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French politician. He was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and the second son of the revolutionary politician and gene…
Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (died 1888)
Friedrich Frey-Herosé was a Swiss politician.
Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1873)
Melchior Berri was a Swiss architect.
Melchior Berri, Swiss architect and educator, designed the Natural History Museum of Basel (died 1854)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counte…
Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (died 1883)
Gustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer, librettist, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opé…
Albert Lortzing, German singer-songwriter and actor (died 1851)
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)