1805

Year 1805 (MDCCCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1805

January - March

* January 11 - Michigan Territory is created.
* February 15 - The Harmony Society is officially formed.
* March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.
* March 4 - Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.

April - July

* April 27 - United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").
* April 29 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck is appointed as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic by Napoleon.
* June 1 - Luigi Boccherini is buried in Italy after being found dead on May 28.
* June - War ends between Tripoli and the United States of America.
* June 4 - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony is held at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
* June 11 - Detroit burns to the ground; most of the city is destroyed.
* June 13 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming they are heading in the right direction.
* July 9 - Muhammad Ali Pasha founds his dynasty in Egypt.

October - December

* October 17 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon after being surrounded.
* October 21 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Trafalgar: British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain; however, Admiral Nelson is fatally shot. [

October 21 - Battle of Trafalgar.]
* November 7 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean.
* November 11 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Dürenstein: 8,000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
* November 16 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Schöngrabern: - Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
* November 26 - The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened.
* December 2 - Napoleonic Wars - Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
* December 26 - The Peace of Pressburg is signed between France and Austria.

Undated

* James Squire becomes the first person in Australia to cultivate Hops.
* The Horse Patrol, a mounted law enforcement force, is founded in London, England.
* King Anouvong becomes ruler of Vientiane.
* Napoleon annuls the 10-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar; he also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.
* Sweden declares war on France.

Ongoing events

* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Third Coalition

Births

January - June

* January 8 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
* January 27 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
* March 3 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
* March 23 - Sears Cook Walker, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1853)
* April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
* June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman, and writer (d. 1872)

July - December

* July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (d. 1859)
* August 4 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
* August 29 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
* November 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
* November 28 - John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (d. 1852)
* December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
* December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader, founder of Mormonism (d. 1844)

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Deaths

January - June

* January 9 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
* January 18 - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1730)
* January 23 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunication pioneer (b. 1763)
* February 25 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
* March 4 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
* May 7 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
* May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (b. 1759)
* May 25 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
* May 28 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
* June 19 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)

July - December

* August 3 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
* August 28 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
* October 5 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
* October 21 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
* December 23 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)

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