1805 Calendar
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1805 Historical Event(s)
March 17, 1805
– The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
April 7, 1805
– Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
April 27, 1805
– First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
June 2, 1805
– Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
June 10, 1805
– First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
June 11, 1805
– A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
July 22, 1805
– Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
October 14, 1805
– Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
November 1, 1805
– Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
November 16, 1805
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
Who Were Born On 1805?
January 8, 1805
– Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
January 27, 1805
– Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
July 5, 1805
– Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, French prince (d. 1870)
August 10, 1805
– Ferenc Toldy, German-Hungarian literary critic (d. 1875)
September 2, 1805
– Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
October 23, 1805
– John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
November 19, 1805
– Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
December 10, 1805
– Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
December 12, 1805
– William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
December 23, 1805
– Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (d. 1844)