Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1807
Birthdays
- January 6 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
- January 11 - Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
- January 16 - Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d 1877)
- January 19 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
- February 3 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general (d. 1891)
- February 8 - Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
- February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- March 1 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
- March 14 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
- May 28 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
- June 30 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator
- July 1 - Thomas Green Clemson, American university founder (d. 1888)
- July 4 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882)
- July 12 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
- August 8 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
- August 11 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
- September 5 - Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
- October 4 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician
- December 17 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
- December 22 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
Deaths
- February 5 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
- February 6 - John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
- March 4 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
- April 4 - Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
- May 10 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
- May 13 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
- May 17 - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
- May 18 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
- July 13 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
- September 14 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
- November 2 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
- November 23 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
- November 24 - Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (b. 1742)
- December 19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm
- December 21 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)
Events
- February 3 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
- February 7 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau
- February 8 - Battle of Eylau
- February 19 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddart.
- March 2 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
- March 25 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- March 25 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
- May 22 - A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- May 22 - Most of the English town of Chudleigh destroyed by fire
- June 14 - 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 19 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- June 28 - Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
- July 7 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
- July 9 - Treaties of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I.
- August 17 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
- September 1 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
- September 2 - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
- November 27 - The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
- December 17 - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- December 22 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
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