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Everything about 1805 totally explainedYear 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1805
January - March
April - July
April 27 - United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").
April 29 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck is appointed as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic by Napoleon.
June 1 - Luigi Boccherini was buried in Italy after being found dead on May 28.
June - War ends between Tripoli and the United States of America.
June 4 - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London.
June 11 - Detroit burns to the ground. Most of the city is destroyed.
June 13 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming they're heading in the right direction.
July 9 - Muhammad Ali Pasha founds his dynasty in Egypt
October - December
October 17 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Ulm - Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon after being surrounded.
October 21 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain; however, Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.
November 7 - Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean.
November 11 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
November 16 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern - Russian force under Pyotr BagrationBagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
November 26 - The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened.
December 2 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
December 26 - Peace of Pressburg between France and Austria.
Undated
James Squire became the first person in Australia to cultivate Hops.
Horse Patrol, mounted law enforcement force, is founded in London, England.
King Anouvong becomes ruler of Vientiane.
Napoleon annuls the ten-day week of the French Revolutionary Calendar. He also orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.
Sweden declares war on France.
Ongoing events
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Third Coalition.
Births
January - June
January 8 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
January 27 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
March 3 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
March 23 - Sears Cook Walker, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1853)
April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman, and writer (d. 1872)
July - December
July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (d. 1859)
August 4 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
August 29 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
November 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
November 28 - John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (d. 1852)
December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader, founder of Mormonism (d. 1844)
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Deaths
January - June
January 9 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
January 18 - John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1730)
January 23 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunication pioneer (b. 1763)
February 25 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
March 4 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
May 7 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (b. 1759)
May 25 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
May 28 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
June 19 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
July - December
August 3 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
August 28 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
October 5 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
October 21 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1758)
December 23 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
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