1804 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1804?
- January 1, 1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country in North America after the United States
- February 14, 1804 – Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
- February 15, 1804 – The Serbian revolution begins.
- February 16, 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
- February 21, 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
- March 4, 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- March 10, 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
- March 21, 1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
- April 5, 1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
- April 25, 1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
- May 14, 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
- May 18, 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
- June 15, 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- July 11, 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
- July 12, 1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.
- August 11, 1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
- September 1, 1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
- October 9, 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- November 30, 1804 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
- December 2, 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
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