1807 Calendar
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1807 Historical Event(s)
February 7, 1807
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
February 19, 1807
– In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
March 25, 1807
– The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
June 14, 1807
– Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
June 22, 1807
– In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
June 29, 1807
– Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
July 7, 1807
– Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
July 9, 1807
– The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
July 20, 1807
– Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
August 17, 1807
– Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
Who Were Born On 1807?
January 6, 1807
– Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
January 19, 1807
– Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
January 27, 1807
– David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874)
March 1, 1807
– Wilford Woodruff, American religious figure (d. 1898)
May 28, 1807
– Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
June 6, 1807
– Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
June 30, 1807
– Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist and philosopher (d.1887)
July 4, 1807
– Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and political figure (d. 1882)
July 12, 1807
– Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
August 8, 1807
– Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)