Explore 274 historical events from 1800–1809.
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is c…
In Buenos Aires the local militias repel the British soldiers within the Second English Invasion.
The Treaties of Tilsit, also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit, were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermat…
The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the…
The Treaties of Tilsit, also collectively known as the Peace of Tilsit, were two peace treaties signed by French Emperor Napoleon in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermat…
The second Treaty of Tilsit is signed between France and Prussia, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving produ…
Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine,…
Thomas Green Clemson was an American politician and statesman who served as Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He founded Clemson Univers…
Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founder of Clemson University (died 1888)
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. H…
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (died 1882)
Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Hawksley was, with John Freder…
Thomas Hawksley, English engineer and academic (died 1893)
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French Royal Army officer who played a critical role in the American victory at the siege of Yorktown in 1781 during the…
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (born 1725)
Eliphalet Dyer was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Windham, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to many sessions of the Continental Congress, where he sig…
Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1721)
John Gunby was an American planter and soldier from Somerset County, Maryland, who is considered by many to be "one of the most gallant officers of the Maryland Line under Gen. Sma…
John Gunby, American general (born 1745)
John Douglas was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.
John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (born 1721)
Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, also known as the Cardinal of York, was a cardinal, and was the third and final Jacobite he…
Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal, pretender to the British throne and last member of the House of Stuart (born…
HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable for the actions of her captai…
The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake (pictured) in the belief that t
Claude Félix Abel Niépce was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated Nicéphore Niépce. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal…
French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore, one of the world's first…
On 18 July 1806, approximately 40,000 lb (18,000 kg) of gunpowder stored in a magazine (polverista) in Birgu, Malta, mistakenly detonated. The explosion killed an estimated 200 peo…
A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
Sarah George Bagley was an American labor leader in New England during the 1840s; an advocate of shorter workdays for factory operatives and mechanics, she campaigned to make ten h…
Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (died 1889)
Catherine Labouré, DC was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed to have relayed the request from the Blessed …
Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (died 1876)
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866. He was one of the most important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationa…
Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (died 1881)
The action of 21 April 1806 was a minor engagement between the French and British navies off the Cape Colony during the Napoleonic Wars. The Isle Bonaparte and Isle de France were …
Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa
Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, styled The Honourable Harriet Howard before her marriage, was an English courtier and abolitionist from…
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, English duchess (died 1868)
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated a…
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Edward Davy was an English physician, scientist, and inventor who played a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invented an electric relay.
Edward Davy, English physician and chemist (died 1885)
Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term…
Augustus De Morgan, English mathematician and logician (died 1871)
Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist. She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served as e…
Maria Weston Chapman, American abolitionist (died 1885)