Major Events
- Feb 21 The world’s first steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, runs for the first time along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
- Mar 21 Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law
- May 14 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
- May 18 Napoléon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate
- Jul 12 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr
- Dec 2 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII
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George Childress
John Deere
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mongkut
Franklin Pierce
Benjamin DisraeliMore People Born in 1804
Fun Fact About 1804
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
Joseph Priestley
Immanuel Kant
Jacques Necker
Alexander HamiltonMore 1804 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1804
- Mar 13 Economist Thomas Malthus (38) weds Harriet Eckersall in Bath, Somerset
Ludwig van Beethoven
Napoléon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson
William Pitt the Younger