1804 - What happened in 1804 ?

January 1804

Sunday 01:

French rule ends in Haiti.

February 1804

Tuesday 14:

Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

Thursday 16:

First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.

Tuesday 21:

The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.

Friday 24:

London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute,

March 1804

Sunday 04:

1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia)

Saturday 10:

Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

Wednesday 21:

Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.

April 1804

Thursday 05:

The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).

May 1804

Monday 14:

The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.

Friday 18:

Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.

June 1804

Friday 15:

New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.

July 1804

Wednesday 11:

Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr kills Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

August 1804

Monday 20:

Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.

September 1804

Saturday 01:

Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

Tuesday 25:

The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Corps of Discovery as a toll for moving further upriver.

November 1804

Friday 30:

The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.

December 1804

Sunday 02:

At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years.