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Special Events for the Year 1805 - back to GREGSITE

Born :07/29/1805Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
Born :02/01/1805Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
Born :11/22/1805Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
Born :04/19/1805Charles-Edmond-H‚nri, coussemaker/musicologist
Born :07/26/1805Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
Born :02/13/1805David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
Born :02/21/1805David Tod, Governor (Union), died in 1868
Born :11/19/1805Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
Born :04/07/1805Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1869
Born :04/02/1805Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
Born :12/12/1805Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
Born :06/29/1805Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave)
Born :09/06/1805Horatio Greenough, US, neo-classical sculptor/writer (Form & Function)
Born :11/28/1805John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America
Born :08/18/1805Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
Born :12/23/1805Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vt, found Mormon church
Born :02/18/1805Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
Born :12/31/1805Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)
Born :09/23/1805Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist
Born :02/03/1805Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
Born :02/13/1805Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
Born :06/14/1805Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
Born :09/18/1805Robert Cowdin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Born :01/27/1805Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision)
Born :09/30/1805Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :02/03/1805Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
Born :12/20/1805Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
Born :04/30/1805William Kerley Strong, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Born :12/10/1805William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator)
Born :12/12/1805William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
Died :12/27/1805Belle van Zuylen, [Isabelle AE de Charrire-of Tuyll, dies
Died :10/21/1805Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
Died :05/09/1805Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies
Died :12/27/1805Serooskerken, Neth/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies
Special :06/05/18051st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
Special :07/08/1805American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
Special :10/21/1805Battle of Trafalgar, Adm Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet & dies
Special :12/31/1805End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
Special :06/21/1805Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
Special :05/04/1805Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
Special :11/07/1805Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
Special :11/08/1805Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean
Special :01/11/1805Michigan Territory organized
Special :07/26/1805Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
Special :12/02/1805Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
Special :11/20/1805Opera "Fidelio" is produced (Vienna)
Special :11/25/1805Opera "Tha‹s" 1st American performance
Special :12/26/1805Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
Special :10/23/1805Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340
Special :06/04/1805Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
Special :04/27/1805US Marines attack shores of Tripoli

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