1805

1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate

June 1 - Luigi Boccherini was 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 at the Horse Guards Parade in London
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.^*

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. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot

Sweden declares war on France
Horse Patrol, mounted law enforcement force, founded in London, England
Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated
King Anouvong becomes ruler of Vientiane.

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)
April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman, and writer (d. 1872)
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)
December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader, founder of Mormonism (d. 1844)

January 9 - Noble Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
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 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)
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)
John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1730)

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