Explore 333 historical events from 1800–1809.
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat. In 1807, …
Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the…
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. H…
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (died 1882)
David Rice Atchison was a mid-19th-century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison se…
David Rice Atchison, American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886)
François Judith Paul Grévy, known as Jules Grévy, was a French lawyer and politician who served as President of France from 1879 to 1887. He was a leader of the Moderate Republican…
Jules Grévy, French lawyer and politician, 4th President of the French Republic (died 1891)
Eliphalet Dyer was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Windham, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to many sessions of the Continental Congress, where he sig…
Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1721)
John Gunby was an American planter and soldier from Somerset County, Maryland, who is considered by many to be "one of the most gallant officers of the Maryland Line under Gen. Sma…
John Gunby, American general (born 1745)
John Douglas was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.
John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (born 1721)
John Walker was an English stage actor, philologist and lexicographer.
John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (born 1732)
Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York, also known as the Cardinal of York, was a cardinal, and was the third and final Jacobite he…
Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian cardinal, pretender to the British throne and last member of the House of Stuart (born…
John Boorman was an English cricketer whose known career spanned 26 seasons from 1768 to 1793. In Scores & Biographies, Arthur Haygarth recorded that he found a reference to Boorma…
John Boorman, English cricketer (born c. 1754)
HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable for the actions of her captai…
The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake (pictured) in the belief that t
Claude Félix Abel Niépce was a French inventor and the older brother of the more celebrated Nicéphore Niépce. Claude traveled to England to try to find a sponsor for their internal…
French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore, one of the world's first…
On 18 July 1806, approximately 40,000 lb (18,000 kg) of gunpowder stored in a magazine (polverista) in Birgu, Malta, mistakenly detonated. The explosion killed an estimated 200 peo…
A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
Santiago Antonio María de Liniers y Bremond, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, KOM, OM was a Spanish military officer and a viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Although bor…
Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British…
The Battle of Mišar was fought between Serbian revolutionaries and an Ottoman army, it took place from 13 to 15 August 1806 during the First Serbian Uprising.
Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle ends two days later with a Serbian victory over the…
The action of 21 April 1806 was a minor engagement between the French and British navies off the Cape Colony during the Napoleonic Wars. The Isle Bonaparte and Isle de France were …
Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His politica…
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Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is c…
British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate
The Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, …
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
Sarah George Bagley was an American labor leader in New England during the 1840s; an advocate of shorter workdays for factory operatives and mechanics, she campaigned to make ten h…
Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (died 1889)
Catherine Labouré, DC was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed to have relayed the request from the Blessed …
Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (died 1876)
Johan Vilhelm Snellman was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, ennobled in 1866. He was one of the most important 'awakeners' or promoters of Finnish nationa…
Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (died 1881)
Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, styled The Honourable Harriet Howard before her marriage, was an English courtier and abolitionist from…
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, English duchess (died 1868)
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a landlocked state of Germany. It borders the states of Baden-Württemberg to the west, Hesse to the north-west, and Thuringia and …
At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman…