A Regency Era Timeline 1804 in progress
That’s right, today is the first week that it is available. Kindle’s today, and then in a week or so, you can have it in your hands physically if you so desire in Trade Paperback form as the other releases from our publisher, Regency Assembly Press does.
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For myself and Regency Assembly Press it is an experiment. RAP (And we hope you all are RAPpers and not RAPscallions) wants to see if this will work. They have also reduced the price of this book to half of what RAP books sell for. $3.99 for an electronic copy.
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Love is something that can not be fostered by deceit even should one’s eyes betray one’s heart.
Two brothers that are so close in appearance that only a handful have ever been able to tell them apart. The Earl of Kent, Percival Francis Michael Coldwell is only older than his brother, Peregrine Maxim Frederick Coldwell by 17 minutes. They may have looked as each other, but that masked how they were truthfully quite opposite to one another.
For Percy, his personality was one that he was quite comfortable with and more than happy to let Perry be of a serious nature. At least until he met Veronica Hamilton, the daughter of Baron Hamilton of Leith. She was only interested in a man who was serious.
Once more, Peregrine is obliged to help his older brother by taking his place, that the Earl may woo the young lady who has captured his heart. That is, until there is one who captures Peregrine’s heart as well.
Available in other digital formats on 11/15/2012
Timeline
Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.
With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,
The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein
Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield
What Happened When by Carruth.
, History of the World. A beautiful Dorling Kindersley book.
I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.
Here is the start of 1804:
Year
Month Day
Event
1804
Jan 1
Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the Republic of Haiti and declared independence from France. Documentation of his speech was then lost and only re-discovered in 2010 by a Canadian graduate student searching in the British National Archives.
1804
Jan 5
Ohio legislature passed the 1st laws restricting free blacks movement. [see Mar 28]
1804
Jan 31
British vice-admiral William Bligh (of HMS Bounty infamy) fleet reached Curacao (Antilles).
1804
Feb 6
Joseph Priestley (b.1733), English-born US writer, philosopher and chemist, died in Pennsylvania. He became best known for having discovered oxygen. Priestley also figured out how to manufacture carbonated water and is sometimes called “the father of the soft-drink industry.” In 2008 Steven Johnson authored “The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America.”
1804
Feb 7
John Deere, farm equipment manufacturer, was born.
1804
Feb 15
New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish slavery.
1804
Feb 16
Lt. Stephen Decatur attacked Tripoli, where pirates held the USS Philadelphia. Decatur and 76 volunteers, aboard the captured Intrepid, attempted to recapture the Philadelphia, which caught fire, exploded and sank. Decatur and his crew escaped.
1804
Feb 25
Thomas Jefferson was nominated for president at the Democratic-Republican caucus.
1804
Feb 26
Vice-Admiral William Bligh ended the siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad.
1804
February
February: A royalist conspiracy against Napoleon is uncovered.
1804
February
February: German philosopher Immanuel Kant dies at age 79.
1804
February
February: Richard Trevithick designs and demonstrates the first steam-powered railway locomotive.
1804
Mar 7
John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), died.
1804
Mar 8
Alvan Clark, telescope manufacturer, was born.
1804
Mar 12
Judge John Pickering, a federal district judge in New Hampshire, was the first American official impeached and then found guilty by the Senate. Pickering, a Federalist, was impeached as unfit based on charges related to his habitual drunkenness and bizarre handling of cases. He was adjudged guilty and removed from office in spite of evidence establishing that he was insane and hence not culpable of high crimes or misdemeanors. Impeached during the same period, Chief Justice Samuel Chase was acquitted by the Senate on March 1, 1805, ending the Republican campaign against the Federalist bench and discouraging subsequent administrations from using impeachment to remove politically obnoxious judges.
1804
Mar 14
Johann Strauss (d.1849), Austrian orchestra conductor and composer, was born. His son was also named Johann (1825-1899).
1804
Mar 21
The French civil code, later called the “Code Napoleon,” was adopted.
1804
Mar 26
Congress ordered the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi to Louisiana.
1804
Mar 26
The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana.
1804
Mar 28
Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks. [see Jan 5]
1804
March
March: One of the royalist conspirators, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d’Enghien, is seized, condemned by a commission acting under Napoleon’s orders, and shot, ending any hope of a reconciliation between the emperor and the royal house of Bourbon. The young duke’s murder is discussed in the opening of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
1804
March
March: The Code Napoleon is adopted as French civil law.
1804
March
March: The Royal Horticultural Society is founded.
1804
Apr 20
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian rebel leader, commanded a massacre of the French at town of Cape Francois. It is generally thought that Dessalines had around 20,000 French slaughtered in early 1804.
1804
Apr 22
Gioacchino Rossini (12) performed in Imola.
1804
April
April: Another of the royalist conspirators, General Charles Pichegru is found strangled in his cell at the Temple prison. It was rumored, but never proven, that his murder was ordered by Napoleon.
1804
10-May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: William Pitt “The Younger”
1804
May 14
The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis. Explorer William Clark sets off from St. Louis, Missouri, to travel upriver to wait for Meriwether Lewis. The two will soon depart together on a journey to reach the Pacific. The trip was retold in a TV movie by Ken Burns in 1997. [see May 22]
1804
May 16
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founder of the first U.S. kindergarten, was born.
1804
May 18
The French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
1804
May 22
The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. [see May 14]
1804
May
May: Napoleon is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1804
May
May: William Pitt once again becomes Britian’s Prime Minister after the resignation of Henry Addington.
1804
Jun 3
Richard Cobden, English economist and politician, was born. He became known as ‘the Apostle of free trade.’ He led the Anti-Corn League, which in 1839-1846 fought to remove price controls and import barriers for wheat.
1804
Jun 26
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1804
Jun 29
Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins receives 100 lashes on his back and Hall receives 50.
1804
Jul 1
George Sand (Amandine-Aurore Lucille Dupin de Francueil, d.1876), French novelist, was born in Paris. She wrote some 80 novels that included “Consuelo” (1842) and “La Comtesse de Rudolstadt” (1843). In 1975 Curtis Cate published the biography: “George Sand.” “I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.”
1804
Jul 4
Nathaniel Hawthorne (d.1864) American novelist and short-story writer, was born in Marblehead, [Salem], Massachusetts. Hawthorne was born to a prominent but decaying family. One of his ancestors, a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials, became the model for the accursed founder of The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne would often wonder whether the decline of his family’s fortune was a punishment for the sins of his “sable-cloaked steeple-crowned progenitors.” Marblehead is also the location of the house in his book “The House of Seven Gables.” He also wrote “The Scarlet Letter.”
1804
Jul 11
Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton (47), former first Treasury Secretary, in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. A warrant for Burr’s arrest was soon issued in New Jersey and New York, where Hamilton died. In 1999 Richard Brookhiser wrote “Alexander Hamilton: American.” In 2001 Joanne B. Freeman edited his writings and published: Alexander Hamilton: Writings.”
1804
Jul 12
Alexander Hamilton (47), US Sec. of Treasury, died in New York of wounds from a pistol duel in New Jersey with VP Aaron Burr. In 1920 Frederick Scott Oliver authored a Hamilton biography. In 2002 Stephen Knott authored “Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth.” In 2004 Ron Chernow authored the biography “Alexander Hamilton.” Lawyer Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848) said Hamilton “more than any man, did the thinking of his time.”
1804
Jul 21
Victor Schoelcher, abolished French slavery, was born in Guadeloupe.
1804
Aug 3
US Commodore Edward Prebble’s squadron bombarded Tripoli inflicting heavy damages on the city.
1804
Aug 20
Charles Floyd died, the only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. In 1901 a memorial was erected at his gravesite in Sioux City, Iowa.
1804
Aug 25
In England Alice Meynell became the 1st woman jockey.
1804
Aug 31
Lewis and Clark held a council with local Sioux Indian chiefs in what is now eastern North Dakota.
1804
August
August: Alice Meynell becomes the first female jockey in England.
1804
Sep 5
In a daring night raid, American sailors under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, boarded the captured USS Philadelphia and burned the ship to keep it out of the hands of the Barbary pirates who captured her.
1804
Sep 21
Another major hurricane hit Puerto Rico on the feast day of St. Matthew and became known as the San Mateo II hurricane [see 1575].
1804
Sep 25
The 12th Amendment was ratified. It required electors to vote separately for the president and vice-president.
1804
Oct 2
England mobilized to protect against an expected French invasion by Napoleon.
1804
Oct 5
Robert Parker Parrott (d.1877), Inventor (Parrot Gun- 1st machine gun), was born.
1804
Oct 5
The Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish galleon, was sunk by the British navy southwest of Portugal with more than 200 people on board. In May 2007, Odyssey Marine Exploration announced that it had discovered a wreck in the Atlantic and its cargo of 500,000 silver coins and other artifacts worth an estimated $500 million. Spain claimed this was the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes. In 2009 Peru pushed claims to the silver coins arguing that they were minted in Lima. In 2012 a US judge ordered that the treasure be returned to Spain.
1804
Oct 6
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (b.1758) had himself crowned James I, Emperor of Haiti. He was murdered two years later in a conspiracy under Christophe and Pétion.
1804
Oct 9
Hobart, Tasmania, was founded.
1804
Oct 26
Lewis and Clark accepted an invitation to camp for the winter near a cluster of villages inhabited by the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians.
1804
Nov 18
Palver Purim (Feast of Lots) was 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape. The Jewish festival marked the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from Haman.
1804
Nov 23
Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the United States, was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
1804
Nov 27
Pres. Jefferson issued a nationwide proclamation to military and public officials warning of a conspiracy to attack Spanish territory in Texas. He had opened negotiations with Spain to purchase Texas territory west of New Orleans. Jefferson had heard rumors that Aaron Burr had begun plotting an invasion of Texas. Jefferson ordered Gen. James Wilkinson to move federal troops into defensive positions between the Sabine River and New Orleans. Wilkinson, unbeknownst to Jefferson, was a close confidant of Burr and also worked as a spy in the employ of Spanish officials in Mexico.
1804
Nov 30
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial, accused of political bias. He was acquitted by the Senate in 1805.
1804
Nov
Thomas Jefferson was re-elected US president. George Clinton, the seven-term governor of New York, was elected vice president under Jefferson and again under Madison in 1808. Clinton died in office on April 20, 1812.
1804
Nov
Lewis and Clark hired French-Canadian fur trapper Toussaint Charbonneau as an interpreter, with the understanding that Sacagawea, who was only about 16 and pregnant, would come along to interpret the Shoshone language. She and another woman had been purchased by Charbonneau, who lived among the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians, to be his wives.
1804
Dec 1
Emperor Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais, of Martinique.
1804
Dec 2
Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France with Josephine as Empress as Pope Pius VII looked on. In 1807 Jacques-Louis David completed his painting of the event.
1804
Dec 21
Benjamin Disraeli (d.1881), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1868, 1874-80), was born. He instituted reforms in housing, public health and factory regulations. “Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.” In 1993 Stanley Weintraub published “Disraeli: A Biography.”
1804
December
December: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
1804
December
December: Spain declares war on Britain.
1804
A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land. Later the settlement (to become Hobart) is moved across the river to Sullivan’s Cove.
1804
At Sydney, the Castle Hill convict rebellion, also known as the Second Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1804
Gas lighting is demonstrated at London’s Lyceum Theatre by German inventor Frederick Albert Winsor.
1804
The Society of Painters in Water Colours is founded by artists who do not believe their medium commands enough respect by the Royal Academy.
1804
The Royal College of Surgeons is founded in London.
1804
Japan refuses trade with arriving Russian ships.
1804
The Russians visit the Hawaiian islands on their way to Fort Ross in California.
1804
Around 150,000 Hawaiians — nearly half of the population — are dying from the Great Sickness — an unknown disease brought by Europeans.
1804
Serbs revolt against Ottoman authority and win autonomy status — self-rule within the Ottoman Empire — demonstrating Ottoman weakness to Greeks, who remain under Ottoman rule.
1804
Haiti proclaims itself a republic and independent.
1804
In Hausaland (south of the Sahara and west of Lake Chad), Muslim herdsmen war against non-Muslim Hausa chiefdoms and gain power in the region.
1804
In the wartime atmosphere and as a defense against French royalty, the Senate in France votes in favor of Napoleon Bonaparte becoming Napoleon I, “Emperor of the French.” Napoleon crowns himself emperor. Beethoven is enraged. He dislikes royalty and tears up the title page for his Symfonia Buonaparte, which will be known as his Symphony No.3.
1804
Spain joins Napoleon’s war as an ally against the British.
1804
John Quincy Adams published his travel book: “Letters on Silesia.”
1804
Fort Dearborn was erected on the Chicago River on the site of present-day downtown Chicago. With the outbreak of the War of 1812, the garrison of 67 soldiers, their dependents and settlers were ordered to evacuate to Fort Wayne. Most of them were massacred en route by Pottawatomie Indians, who then burned the fort. Fort Dearborn was rebuilt in 1816 and around it grew the settlement that would become Chicago. Abandoned in 1837, Fort Dearborn was demolished in 1856.
1804
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark packed up 5,555 rations of flour, and 120 gallons of whiskey for their western journey of exploration that would last 2 ½ years. In 1996 Stephen Ambrose published an account of their trip titled: “Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West.” The cutthroat trout, Onchorhynchus clarki lewisi, was found to be highly abundant. In 1997 the fish was on the brink of extinction.
1804
The town of St. Michaels on the Chesapeake Bay was incorporated, resurveyed and laid out in three squares: Harrison’s square to the north, Thompson’s square to the west and Braddock’s square to the east.
1804
In Australia soldiers fired on an aboriginal hunting party on Tasmania and killed some 50 people. Some were salted down and sent to Sydney as anthropological curiosities.
1804
The British Royal Horticultural Society was formed.
1804
The British Royal Watercolour Society was formed.
1804
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (32), English poet, fled to Malta and worked as an assistant to the civilian governor. He returned to England in 1806.
1804
A motion in British Parliament for abolition of the slave trade passed in the House of Commons 124 to 29, but was defeated in the House of Lords.
1804
In England John Barrow (1764-1848) was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville, a post which he held for forty years (apart from a short period in 1806-07 when there was a Whig government in power).
1804
Sir George Cayley, England’s “father of aeronautics,” built and flew the world’s first successful model glider.
1804
The Botanical Gardens of Antwerp, Belgium, began as a large herb garden dedicated to medicinal plants.
1804
A stone signal tower was built on Clare Island as part of a series along the Irish west coast in fear of an invasion by Napoleon.
1804
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery of Paris was founded.
1804
Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon I, began a rose collection at Malmaison, and sparked a wide interest in rose culture.
1804
The Wahabis captured Medina, Arabia.
1804
Immanuel Kant (b. 1724), German philosopher, died. His “categorical imperative” helped to ascertain the proper course under any circumstances: “Act only on the maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Kant had described how the sun and planets might have condensed from a primordial cloud with no divine intervention.
1804-1866
Eliphalet Nott, Presbyterian minister, president of Union College during this period. UC was the first non-denominational college in the US. It emphasized practical education as well as classical studies.
1804-1999
In 2000 Misha Glenny authored “The Balkans, 1804-1999.”
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