Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1804
Birthdays
- January 13 - Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
- January 20 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
- January 21 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
- February 5 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
- February 7 - John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
- February 8 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
- February 12 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
- February 16 - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885)
- February 19 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)
- February 19 - David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905)
- March 14 - Johann Strauß, Sr.
- March 17 - Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
- April 26 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
- May 1 - Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)
- May 12 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (d. 1858)
- June 1 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- June 10 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
- June 24 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
- July 1 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
- July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
- July 10 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (d. 1879)
- July 28 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
- September 8 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
- September 14 - John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
- September 14 - Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
- October 3 - Townsend Harris, 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
- October 3 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
- October 24 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
- October 28 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
- November 18 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
- November 23 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
- November 27 - Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
- December 10 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
- December 13 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician (d. 1873)
- December 16 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889)
- December 21 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
- December 23 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
Deaths
- January 4 - Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (bc. 1730)
- January 15 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
- February 2 - George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50)
- February 12 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (b. 1724)
- March 21 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
- March 30 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
- April 3 - Jêdrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728)
- April 7 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (b. 1743)
- April 9 - Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
- April 15 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
- June 16 - Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
- July 12 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
- September 4 - Richard Somers, American naval officer
- September 29 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
- October 2 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
- November 19 - Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
- November 23 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
Events
- January 1 - French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and first independent country in the West Indies.
- February 14 - Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
- February 16 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
- February 21 - The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
- February 24 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
- March 4 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
- March 10 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
- March 21 - Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
- April 2 - Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.
- April 5 - High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
- May 14 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
- May 18 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
- June 15 - New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
- July 11 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
- July 12 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel.
- August 11 - Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria
- August 20 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: the "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
- September 1 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
- September 25 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
- October 9 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
- November 30 - The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
- December 2 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
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