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( 1800s: )     1805
The battle of Austerlitz
Year 1805

Events

• March 1 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted of impeachment charges by the United States Senate.
• March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
• March 5 – The New Brunswick Legislature passes a bill to advance literacy in the province, which eventually leads to the creation of public education in Canada.
• April 29 – Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck is appointed as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic by Napoleon.
• May 26 – Napoleon is crowned King of Italy.
• June 4 - The First Barbary War ends between Tripoli and the United States of America.
• June 13 – Lewis and Clark Expedition in the United States: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming they are heading in the right direction.
• August 29 – Emperor Franz I of Austria and his council of ministers vote in favor of going to war with France.
• August 31 – British Army General David Baird departs from Cork, leading an expedition to capture the Cape of Good Hope. Their ship arrives on January 4.
• September 21 – King Ferdinand of Naples signs a treaty in Paris agreeing to keep Naples neutral during the war between France and the allied powers.
• September 29 – Admiral Nelson of the British Royal Navy takes command of the fleet off of the coast of Cadiz, in order to counteract the navies of France and Spain.
• October 16–19 – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded.
• October 21 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Trafalgar: The British fleet, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain; however, Admiral Nelson is fatally shot.
• October 31 – Sweden, led by King Gustav IV Adolf, declares war on France.
• November 7 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean.
• December 2 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• December 26 – The Peace of Pressburg between France and Austria is signed in the Primate's Palace, Pressbury (modern-day Bratislava).
• December 31 – The French Republican Calendar (which featured a 10-day week until 1802) is used for the last time, 8 days after being annulled by Napoleon, with the final official date being "9 Nivôse in Year XIV of the Revolution".

Date unknown

• Napoleon orders his soldiers to be vaccinated.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Napoleonic Wars	1803	1815	A global series of conflicts fought between the France under First Consul and Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, against a fluctuating array of European coalitions, to a large degree directed by Britain.

 

A Birth

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Alexander Burnes	16 May 1805	Scotland Montrose	2 November 1841	Diplomat Spook Explorer	UK "spymaster" diplomat

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