1805 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1805?
- January 11, 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
- March 1, 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
- March 17, 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
- April 7, 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- April 27, 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
- May 17, 1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
- May 23, 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
- May 26, 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
- May 31, 1805 – French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock
- June 10, 1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- June 11, 1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- June 13, 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- June 30, 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
- July 22, 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
- October 14, 1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
- October 19, 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
- November 16, 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
- November 26, 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
- December 2, 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
- December 26, 1805 – Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
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