1803
Calendar year
December 20 : U.S. increases in size with Louisiana purchase
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January 5: steamboat Charlotte Dundas September 23 : Battle of Assaye Completing the Louisiana Purchase from France . 1803 (MDCCCIII ) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar , the 1803rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 2nd millennium , the 3rd year of the 19th century , and the 4th year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1803, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
March–April – The franc germinal
April 26 – The L'Aigle meteorite falls in Normandy, causing a shift in scientific opinion on the origin of meteorites.
April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase is made from France by the United States.
May – First Consul of France, Citizen Bonaparte , begins making preparations to invade England .
May 18 – The Napoleonic Wars begin, when the United Kingdom declares war on France, after France refuses to withdraw from Dutch territory.
May 19 – Master Malati , a Coptic Christian leader, is beheaded by a Muslim mob in Cairo , Egypt.
June 5 – Convention of Artlenburg agrees a ceasefire following the French Invasion of Hanover . Large numbers of the former Hanoverian Army go into exile to join the King's German Legion
June 7 – Indiana Territory governor (and future U.S. president) William Henry Harrison signs treaties at Fort Wayne , with representatives of the Delaware , Shawnee , Potawatomi , Miami , Kickapoo , Eel River , Wea , Piankeshaw and Kaskaskia Indian tribes. The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaties on November 25.[ 3]
June 14 – Napoleon Bonaparte orders the establishment of five military camps to defend the coast of France, located at Bayonne , Ghent , Saint-Omer , Compiègne , Saint-Malo , and one in the occupied Netherlands, at Utrecht . Each one has 20,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry to defend it.[ 4]
October 14 – Orissa , an area of India along the Bay of Bengal that comprises the modern-day Indian state of Odisha , is occupied by the British under the British East India Company , after the Second Anglo-Maratha War.[ 5] Maratha Empire formally cedes the area in the Treaty of Deogaon , signed on December 17.[ 6]
October 20 – The Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.
November 18 – Haitian Revolution : Battle of Vertières – The Haitian army, led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines , defeats the French army sent by Napoleon .
November 30
December 9 – The proposed Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution , requiring that electoral ballots distinctly list the choice for president and the choice for vice president, is approved by Congress for submission to the states for ratification; passed in the wake of the problems in the 1800 presidential election , the amendment is ratified by 13 of the 17 states and is proclaimed in effect on September 25, 1804.[ 8]
December 20 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed as the French prefect, de Laussat, formally transfers ownership of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains to the United States, by way of commissioners William C. C. Claiborne and James Wilkinson .[ 9] [ 10]
Undated
Births
Ralph Waldo Emerson Justus von Liebig Osgood Johnson February 2 – Albert Sidney Johnston , American Confederate general (d. 1862)
February 4 – Antonija Höffern , Slovene noblewoman and educator (d. 1871)[ 12]
February 15
February 26 – Arnold Adolph Berthold , German physiologist, zoologist (d. 1861)
March 12 – Guillaume de Felice , Savoy nobleman, abolitionist (d. 1871)
March 13 – John Boyle , British politician (d. 1874)
March 16 – Nikolay Yazykov , Russian poet, Slavophile (d. 1846)
March 27 – Charles Lafontaine , Swiss mesmerist (d. 1892 )
April 7 – Flora Tristan , French feminist (d. 1844)
April 30
May 12 – Justus von Liebig , German chemist (d. 1873)
May 20 – Ann Walker , English landowner and philanthropist (d. 1854)
May 24 – Charles Lucien Bonaparte , French naturalist, ornithologist (d. 1857)
May 25
June 8 – Amalia Assur , Swedish dentist (d. 1889)
June 24 – George James Webb , English-born composer (d. 1887)
Christian Doppler Susannah Moodie Gottfried Semper Sarah Childress Polk Hector Berlioz July 10 – William Todd (1803–1873) , American businessman, Canadian senate nominee
July 20 – John Hymers , English mathematician (d. 1887)
July 24 – Adolphe Adam , French composer (d. 1856)
July 31 – John Ericsson , Swedish inventor, engineer (d. 1889)
August – Francesca Anna Canfield , American linguist, poet and translator (d. 1833 )[ 13]
August 3
Mary Dominus , American settler of Hawaii (d. 1889)Sir Joseph Paxton , English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament (d. 1865)
August 10 – Joseph Vinoy , French general (d. 1880)
August 13 – Vladimir Odoyevsky , Russian philosopher, writer, music critic (d. 1869)
August 18 – Nathan Clifford , American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1881)
August 23
August 27 – Edward Beecher , American theologian (d. 1895)
September 4
September 11 – Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales , first lady of Peru, controversial socialite (d. 1835)
September 27 – Samuel Francis Du Pont , American admiral (d. 1865)
September 28 – Prosper Mérimée , French writer (d. 1870)
September 29 – Mercator Cooper , American sea captain (d. 1872)
September 30 – Gustav von Alvensleben , Prussian general (d. 1881)
October 5 – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal , Danish-German painter (d. 1844)
October 16 – Robert Stephenson , English civil engineer (d. 1859)
November 11 – Adolf von Bonin , Prussian general (d. 1872)
November 14 – Jacob Abbott , American writer (d. 1879)
November 29
December 5 – Fyodor Tyutchev , great Russian Romantic poet (d. 1873)
December 6 – Susanna Moodie , English writer (d. 1885)
December 11 – Hector Berlioz , French composer (d. 1869)
Date unknown
Deaths
Anders Chydenius Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Toussaint Louverture January 1 – James Woodforde , English clergyman, diarist (b. 1740)
January 18 – Ippolit Bogdanovich , Russian poet (b. 1743)
January 23 – Arthur Guinness , Irish brewer (b. 1725)
February 1 – Anders Chydenius , Finnish priest, politician (b. 1729)[ 14]
February 3 – María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda , Spanish scholar (b. 1768)
February 9 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert , French poet (b. 1716)
February 11 – Jean-François de La Harpe , French critic (b. 1739)
February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , German poet (b. 1719)
February 20 – Marie Dumesnil , French actress (b. 1713)
February 22 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont , French Father of the American Revolution (b. 1726)
February 23 – Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova , Russian serf actress, opera soprano (b. 1768)
February 21 – Edward Despard , British revolutionary (b. 1751)
March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German poet (b. 1724)
March 28 – Peter Du Cane, Sr. , British businessman (b. 1713)
April 2 – Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet , Scottish politician, judge (b. 1721)
April 6 – William Hamilton , British diplomat, antiquary (b. 1730)
April 7
April 14 – Christoph Anton Migazzi , Austrian Catholic bishop (b. 1714)
April 24 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , French portrait painter (b. 1749)
May 8 – John Joseph Merlin , Belgian-born British clock- and musical-instrument-maker and inventor (b. 1735)
May 29 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli , French writer (b. 1719)
June 24 – Matthew Thornton , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
June 26 – Fermín Lasuén , Spanish missionary (b. 1736)
Johann Gottfried Herder August 24 – James Napper Tandy , Irish republican
September 5 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general, author (b. 1741)
September 13 – John Barry , officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, later in the United States Navy (b. 1745)
September 15
September 16 – Nicolas Baudin , French explorer (b. 1754)
September 17 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr , Austrian composer (b. 1766)
September 23 – Joseph Ritson , English antiquary (b. 1752)
September 27 – Frances Brett Hodgkinson , English-born American actress (b. 1771)
October 2 – Samuel Adams , American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
October 8 – Vittorio Alfieri , Italian dramatist, poet (b. 1749)
October 14 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin , French philosopher (b. 1743)
October 26 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford , English politician (b. 1721)
October 31 – Pandara Vanniyan , last King of Vanni (defeated by Lt. von Driberg )
November 11 – Raphael Cohen , German rabbi (b. 1722)
November 17 – John Willett Payne , British Royal Navy admiral (b. 1752)
November 18 – Ditlevine Feddersen , Norwegian culture figure (b. 1727)
November 25 – Joseph Wilton , English sculptor (b. 1722)
December 7 – Gerrit Paape , Dutch politician, writer (b. 1752)
December 15 – Dru Drury , English entomologist (b. 1725)
December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder , German philosopher, writer (b. 1744)
December 26 – Gian Carlo Passeroni , Italian writer (b. 1713)
December 30 – Francis Lewis , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
Date unknown
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^ Chandan Kumar Sadangi and Sanjay Mohapatra, Change Management for Organizations: Lessons from Political Upheaval in India (Emerald Group Publishing, 2017) p x
^ Lieutenant-Colonel H. F. Murland, Baillie-Ki-Paltan: Being a History of the 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers 1759–1930 (Andrews UK Ltd., 2012) p122
^ Robert S. Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) p27
^ The Constitution of the United States of America, As Amended , ed. by Jack Brooks (U. S. House of Representatives, 1992) pp15-16^ Charles Etienne and Arthur Gayarré, History of Louisiana: The American Domination (Pelican Publishing, 1972)
^ C. A. Goodrich, History of the United States (Huntington and Hopkins, 1823) p306
^ Andrew Ede, The Chemical Element: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood, 2006) pp129-131
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