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Special Events for the Year 1807 - back to GREGSITE

Born :02/10/1807Abner Clark Harding, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
Born :01/11/1807Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Born :04/24/1807Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
Born :08/18/1807Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
Born :01/16/1807Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
Born :08/11/1807David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849
Born :01/11/1807Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
Born :03/07/1807Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Of the Alchemist)
Born :04/01/1807Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic
Born :06/30/1807Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
Born :02/25/1807George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
Born :07/04/1807Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
Born :02/27/1807Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
Born :05/11/1807Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century Black actor
Born :06/11/1807James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
Born :10/30/1807James Samuel Wadsworth, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Born :05/01/1807John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)
Born :12/17/1807John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
Born :01/12/1807John T Beelen, Dutch/Belgian bible expert
Born :10/12/1807John Tideman, remonstrants theology
Born :02/03/1807Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
Born :01/06/1807Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
Born :05/28/1807Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
Born :02/16/1807Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
Born :01/13/1807Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1883
Born :12/20/1807Richard Lucian Page, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Born :01/19/1807Robert Edward Lee, Stratford Va, General-in-Chief (Confederacy)
Born :07/12/1807Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
Born :05/24/1807Thomas Duncan, painter
Born :07/01/1807Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University
Born :02/01/1807William Bowen Campbell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Died :04/10/1807Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbttel, duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies
Died :12/03/1807Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies
Died :04/18/1807Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies
Died :08/15/1807Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philospher/mathematician, dies at 70
Died :10/01/1807John Mhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday
Died :04/09/1807John Opie, infant prodigy/painter/illustrator, dies
Died :04/04/1807Joseph J‚r“me Le Francais de Lalande, astronomer, dies
Died :12/04/1807Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston
Special :09/14/1807Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
Special :09/01/1807Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
Special :03/25/1807British Parliament abolishes slave trade
Special :06/22/1807British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
Special :02/19/1807British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
Special :03/02/1807Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
Special :12/22/1807Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
Special :01/01/1807Cura‡ao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
Special :03/29/1807Discovery of 4th asteroid Vesta by Heinrich Olbers
Special :03/29/1807H W Olbers discovers asteroid #4 Vesta
Special :06/26/1807Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
Special :01/28/1807London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
Special :01/20/1807Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris
Special :02/08/1807Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
Special :08/17/1807Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
Special :05/22/1807Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
Special :02/10/1807US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
Special :02/19/1807VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
Special :03/27/1807Vesta (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers

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