Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Horace Abbott was an American iron manufacturer and banker. His work included the armor plating for the USS Monitor, USS Agamenticus, USS Roanoke, and USS Monadnock.
Horace Abbott, American businessman and banker (died 1887)
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière was a 19th-century French general.
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1865)
Bernardino António Gomes was a Portuguese medical doctor and scientist. He is perhaps most widely remembered for his pioneering work in Portugal in the field of anaesthesiology, as…
Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)
The fall of Berlin took place on 24 October 1806 when the Prussian capital of Berlin was captured by French forces in the aftermath of the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. Berlin fell 15 …
The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
The War of the Fourth Coalition was a war spanning 1806–1807 that saw a multinational coalition fight against Napoleon's French Empire, subsequently being defeated. The main coalit…
War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding…
John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism and social liberal…
John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (died 1873)
Preston King was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the United States Senate from 1857 to 1863. King also represented the North Country in the U.S. Hou…
Preston King, American lawyer and politician (died 1865)
William Pitt Fessenden was a politician from Maine, United States. He was a Whig and member of the Fessenden political family. He served in the United States House of Representativ…
William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1869)
Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is …
Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (died 1856)
Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of a Franc…
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (born 1763)
Onogawa Kisaburō was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Ōtsu, Ōmi Province. He was the sport's 5th yokozuna. Along with Tanikaze, Onogawa was the first to be given a yokozuna licence d…
Onogawa Kisaburō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 5th Yokozuna (born 1758)
William Tate was an English portrait painter who was a pupil and friend of Joseph Wright of Derby.
William Tate, English painter (born 1747)
Mathurin Jacques Brisson was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.
Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (born 1723)
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín was a Tejano political and military figure of the Texas Revolution who helped to establish the independence of Texas, and also fought against those same sold…
Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (died 1890)
Field Marshal John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, styled Marquess of Lorne from 1761 to 1770, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer in Flander…
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (born 1723)
George Stubbs was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such…
George Stubbs, English painter and academic (born 1724)
James Smith was an Irish-born American lawyer and surveyor. As a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence during his term as a delegate to the Second Continental Con…
James Smith, Irish-American lawyer and politician (born 1719)
Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period and the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.
Michael Haydn, Austrian composer and educator (born 1737)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific arti…
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (born 1732)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the …
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (born 1736)
William Paterson was an American statesman, lawyer, jurist, and signer of the United States Constitution. He was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the second…
William Paterson, Irish-American judge and politician, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (born 1745)
Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the a…
Charles James Fox, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1749)
Benjamin Banneker was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer and surveyor (born 1731)
Prince Frederick Louis Christian "Ferdinand" of Prussia, was a Prussian prince, soldier, composer and pianist. Prince Louis Ferdinand fought in the Napoleonic Wars. The 1927 German…
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (born 1772)