1805 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 11 - Michigan Territory is created.
• February 15 - Harmony Society officially formed
• March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate
• April 27 - United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").
• May 26 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France is crowned King of Italy.
• 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.[1] (http://www.lewis-clark.org/GREATFALLSVT/FALLSOFMO/2GRANDFALL/gf03_grandfall-barralet.htm)
• 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
• November 16 - Battle at Schungrabern - Russian army stops the French
• December 2 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• December 26 – Peace of Pressburg between France and Austria

• 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

Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Third Coalition

Births

• January 27 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
• March 3 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician and first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
• April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (d. 1875)
• June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman and writer
• August 29 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
• November 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist
• December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist
• December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader, founded Mormonism

Deaths

• January 23 - Claude Chappe, telecommunication pioneer (semaphores)
• May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright.
• May 25 - William Paley, philosopher
• May 28 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music performer
• October 21 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral.