Explore 274 historical events from 1800–1809.
Heinrich Gustav Magnus was a German experimental scientist. His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics. He spent the great bulk of his career…
Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (died 1870)
The Wahhabi sack of Karbala occurred on 21 April 1802, under the rule of Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, the second ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah, where approximately 12,000 Wahh…
Twelve thousand Wahhabis sack Karbala, killing over three thousand inhabitants
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the Fren
Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia and commonly known as simply Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on…
Washington, D
Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hu…
Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman wr…
Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (died 1876)
Karl Zittel was a German theologian, who was a prominent figure in 19th century Liberal Protestantism. He was the father of paleontologist Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904).
Karl Zittel, German theologian (died 1871)
Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was a Russian admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy known for his victory in the Battle of Sinop and his leadership in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)…
Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (died 1855)
Robert Chambers was a Scottish publisher, geologist, evolutionary thinker, author and journal editor who, like his elder brother and business partner William Chambers, was highly i…
Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (died 1871)
Alfred Ronalds was an English writer, artisan, and Australian pioneer, best known for his book The Fly-fisher's Entomology.
Alfred Ronalds, British fly fishing author, artisan and Australian pioneer (died 1860)
Guadeloupe is an overseas department and region of the French Republic in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade,…
In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops
The United States Military Academy (USMA), commonly known as West Point, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York, that educates cadets for service as commissione…
The United States Military Academy opens at West Point, New York.
Manuel Apolinario Josef María Ignacio Antonio Lombardini de la Torre (1802–1853) was a Mexican soldier who served as president briefly for about three months in 1853. He rose to po…
Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and president (died 1853)
Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (died 1870)
José Mariano Martín Buenaventura Ignacio Nepomuceno García de Arista Nuez was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as the 19th president of Mexico from 1851 to 1853.
Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 42nd President of Mexico (died 1855)
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)
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.
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
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
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)