1804



Year 1804 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March
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 * - End of rule in . Haiti gains independence from  and becomes the first black, having the only successful   ever.
 * - began.
 * - becomes the last  to abolish.
 * - : leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate.
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 * - is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly.
 * - The 's newly-built "Penydarren"  operates on the  between  in  and  in, following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails.
 * - founds The.
 * - : In, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of from  to the.
 * - Execution of the for plotting against.
 * - adopted as.
 * - Napoleon Bonaparte I claims the crown at Notre Dam Cathedral

April - June

 * - Forty are wrecked when a convoy led by  runs aground off.
 * - The first recorded meteorite falls in,.
 * - resigns as.
 * - begins his second term as a.
 * - The departs from  and begin their historic journey by traveling up the.
 * - is proclaimed  by the.
 * - The ratified by, and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the  of ).

July - September



 * - was shot during a  with  and dies the next day.
 * - The ratified by, removing doubt surrounding adoption.
 * - : The "", whose purpose is to explore the, suffers its only death when  dies, apparently from acute.
 * -   discovers the.
 * defeats in.

October - December

 * - The -controlled begin an  trial against -partisan    (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the  of all charges on, ).
 * - At in,  crowns himself as the first  in a thousand years (the  is adopted).
 * - declares war on.



Undated

 * a 118 acre (0.5 km²) cemetery in is founded.
 * is first isolated from by the German pharmacist,.
 * reached 1 billion people.

Ongoing events

 * recommends that, be renamed "" (from the Latin "australis" meaning "of the south").
 * recommends that, be renamed "" (from the Latin "australis" meaning "of the south").

January - June

 * -, Texas revolutionary (d. )
 * -, Marshal of France (d. )
 * -, French novelist (d. )
 * -, American poet (d. )
 * -, American industrialist (d. )
 * -, telescope manufacturer (d. )
 * -, Austrian composer (d. )
 * -, American trapper and explorer (d. )
 * -, mayor of Portland and Father of Prohibition (d. )
 * -, American politician (d. )
 * -, Transcendental Activist, Educator (d. )
 * , Russian composer (d. )
 * , French writer (d. )
 * -, American religious leader (d. )
 * -, American religious leader (d. )

July - December

 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, German philosopher (d. )
 * -, German poet (d. )
 * -, Roman Catholic bishop of (d. )
 * -, Rama IV, (d. )
 * -, Italian general and statesman (d. )
 * -, 14th (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * -, Canadian politician (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, French literary critic (d. )
 * date unknown
 * , Northern Irish painter (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, British author and poet (b. )
 * -, English entomologist (b. )
 * -, English chemist (b. )
 * -, German philosopher (b. )
 * -, painter (b. )
 * - (executed) (b. )
 * -, Marshal of France (b. )
 * -, French statesman (b. )
 * -, writer, catholics priest (b. )
 * -, French general (strangled in prison) (b. )

July - December

 * -, American statesman (killed in a duel)
 * -, American naval officer (killed in battle)
 * -, French automobile pioneer (b. )
 * -, actress (b. )
 * -, English writer (b. )
 * -, maggid (b. c. 1740)


 * See also .