1803 Calendar
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1803 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1803
– Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
February 24, 1803
– In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
April 26, 1803
– Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
July 4, 1803
– The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
July 5, 1803
– The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
September 3, 1803
– English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
September 11, 1803
– Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia’s army under General Louis Bourquin.
September 23, 1803
– Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
October 20, 1803
– The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
November 18, 1803
– The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
Who Were Born On 1803?
January 3, 1803
– Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
March 24, 1803
– Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882)
May 12, 1803
– Justus von Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873)
May 24, 1803
– Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
May 25, 1803
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
July 12, 1803
– Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
August 18, 1803
– Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
September 27, 1803
– Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
September 28, 1803
– Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
December 27, 1803
– François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote (d. 1839)