1805 - What happened in 1805 ?

January 1805

Friday 11:

Michigan Territory is created.

February 1805

Friday 15:

Harmony Society officially formed.

March 1805

Friday 01:

Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.

Sunday 17:

The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.

April 1805

Sunday 07:

First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica).

Saturday 27:

First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).

May 1805

Thursday 23:

Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.

Sunday 26:

Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.

June 1805

Thursday 13:

Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

Sunday 30:

The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.

July 1805

Monday 22:

inconclusive battle of Cape Finisterre fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

October 1805

Monday 21:

Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrendurs his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours.

November 1805

Wednesday 13:

Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog.

Tuesday 26:

Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

December 1805

Monday 02:

French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.