Explore 504 historical events from 1800–1809.
Willard Richards was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He served as second counselor to church president Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesu…
Willard Richards, American religious leader (died 1854)
Charles Gordon Greene was an American journalist.
Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (died 1886)
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or H…
George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)
Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmos…
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
Robert Baldwin was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry …
Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and politician, third Premier of West Canada (died 1858)
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (died 1864)
Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as the fir…
Emma Smith, American religious leader (died 1879)
Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for…
Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (died 1892)
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians. He is best known for his 1841 book, The Essence of Christia…
Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (died 1872)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk…
Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic (died 1875)
Louis-Désiré Maigret, SS.CC., served as the first vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Born in Saint-Pier…
Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (died 1882)
Townsend Harris was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and …
Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1878)
Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, known by the pen name of Allan Kardec, was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codi…
Allan Kardec, French author, translator, educator and founder of modern Spiritism (died 1869)
John Gould was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward …
John Gould, English ornithologist and illustrator (died 1881)
Benjamin Russell was an American artist best known for his accurate watercolors of whaling ships working in New England. Born to a wealthy family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Rus…
Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (died 1885)
Mongkut, posthumously honoured as King Mongkut the Great was the king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IV. He reigned from 1851 until his death in 1868. Although the te…
Mongkut, Thai king (died 1868)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.
Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (died 1891)
Pierre François Verhulst was a Belgian mathematician and a doctor in number theory from the University of Ghent in 1825. He is best known for the logistic growth model.
Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (died 1849)
Johann Adam Hiller was a German composer, conductor and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the Singspiel, an early form of German opera. In many of these operas he collabo…
Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (born 1728)
Maria Amalia was duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla by marriage to Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma. She was born an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa…
Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma (born 1746)
Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of…
Alexander Hamilton, American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1755)
Admiral of the White Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleo…
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish admiral (born 1731)
Margaret Shippen was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. She has been described as "the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution".
Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (born 1760)
Richard Somers was an officer of the United States Navy, killed during an assault on Tripoli during the First Barbary War.
Richard Somers, American lieutenant (born 1778)