Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1805
Birthdays
- January 8 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)
- January 8 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
- January 13 - Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
- January 27 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
- January 27 - Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
- January 27 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
- February 13 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
- March 3 - Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
- March 16 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
- April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
- April 23 - Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
- June 15 - William Butler Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)
- June 21 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist
- June 22 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (d. 1872)
- July 5 - Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865)
- July 29 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
- August 4 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
- August 9 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
- August 23 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
- August 29 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
- September 2 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
- September 27 - George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
- October 23 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
- November 7 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
- November 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
- November 19 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
- November 28 - John Stephens, American archeologist (d. 1852)
- December 6 - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
- December 6 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
- December 10 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
- December 12 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
- December 12 - Henry Wells, Founder of American Express (d. 1878)
- December 21 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
- December 22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
- December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr.
Deaths
- January 9 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
- January 23 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
- February 25 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
- March 4 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
- March 14 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
- May 7 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
- May 9 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian (b. 1759)
- May 25 - William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
- May 28 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
- June 19 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
- August 3 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724)
- August 28 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
- October 5 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
- October 21 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (b. 1758)
- December 23 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
Events
- January 11 - The Michigan Territory is created.
- February 15 - Harmony Society is officially formed.
- March 1 - Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
- March 17 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
- April 7 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
- April 7 - First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica).
- April 26 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
- April 27 - First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
- May 17 - Muhammad Ali became Wāli of Egypt.
- May 23 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
- May 26 - Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.
- June 10 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
- June 11 - A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
- June 13 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- June 30 - The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
- July 22 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition
- October 14 - Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
- October 21 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century.
- October 21 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours.
- November 1 - Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
- November 11 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein
- November 16 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern
- November 26 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
- December 2 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz
- December 3 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.
- December 26 - Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
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