Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Samson Raphael Hirsch was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed n…
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (died 1888)
Ygnacio Ramón de Jesus del Valle was a Californio ranchero and politician. He owned much of the Santa Clarita Valley and served briefly as Mayor of Los Angeles and as a California …
Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (died 1880)
Henry Edward Manning was an English prelate of the Catholic Church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892. He was ordained in the Church of Eng…
Henry Edward Manning, English cardinal (died 1892)
Simion Bărnuțiu was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represen…
Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian, academic, and politician (died 1864)
The Convention of Cintra was an agreement signed on 30 August 1808, during the Peninsular War. By the agreement, the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Port…
The convention of Cintra allows the defeated French troops to be transported out of Iberia on British ships, including…
The Treaty of Paris was an agreement signed on 8 September 1808 in Paris between the First French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Also known as the Convention of Paris, it set t…
The Treaty of Paris is signed ending the French military occupation of Prussia.
The Finnish War was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war, t…
Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians,…
The Finnish War was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war, t…
Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
The Republic of Ragusa was an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in South Dalmatia in Southern Europe. It carried that name from 1358 until 1808, reac…
The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
Napoleon III was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last m…
Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire (died 1873)
William Williams Chapman was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon and Iowa. He was born and raised in Virginia. He served as a United States Attorney in Iowa when it was par…
William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (died 1892)
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Arab Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the Fr…
Emir Abdelkader, Algerian religious and military leader (died 1883)
Henry Bennett was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a United States representative from New York from 1849 to 1859.
Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (died 1868)
Karl Andree was a German geographer, publicist and consul.
Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (died 1875)
Gérard de Nerval, was the pen name of Gérard Labrunie, a French travel writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He was a major figure during the era of French romanticism, and best …
Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (died 1855)
Jefferson F. Davis was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a member of the…
Jefferson Davis, American colonel and politician, President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 - 1865 (died
Alexander William Doniphan was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Jose…
Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel (died 1887)
Hamilton Fish was an American statesman who served as the sixteenth governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States senator from New York from 1851 to 1857, and the 26th U.…
Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (died 1893)
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington House. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke C…
Mary Anna Custis Lee, American wife of Robert E. Lee (died 1873)
Caterina Scarpellini was an Italian astronomer and meteorologist who discovered a comet and as a meteorologist she established a station in Rome in the 1850s. She published more th…
Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (died 1873)
Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis was a French physiologist, Freemason, materialist philosopher and leading idéologue.
Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (born 1757)
Elijah Craig was an American Baptist preacher, who became an educator and capitalist entrepreneur in the area of Virginia that later became the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He has som…
Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (born 1738)
Richard Hurd was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.
Richard Hurd, English bishop (born 1720)
Ludwik Skumin Tyszkiewicz was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) and Field Lithuanian Hetman from 1780 to 1791, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania from 1791, Great Lithuanian Marsh…
Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (born 1748)