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[[File:Napoleon friedland.jpg|thumb|right|[[June 14]]: [[Battle of Friedland]]]]
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== Events ==
=== January–March ===
* [[January 7]] – The United Kingdom issues an [[Orders in Council (1807)|Order in Council]] prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.<ref>William S. Dudley, ed. ''The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History'' (Naval Historical Center, 1985) p34</ref>
* [[January 20]] – The [[Sierra Leone Company]], faced with bankruptcy because of the outlawing of the slave trade in British colonies, petitions the British government for purchase and transfer of its property to the Crown; Parliament approves the transfer on [[July 29]], and it takes effect on [[January 1]], [[1808]].<ref>Stephen Tomkins, ''The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain'' (Lion Books, 2012) p200</ref>
* [[January 22]] – The United Kingdom abolishes the slave trade in all of its colonies, effective [[March 1]], [[1808]].<ref>''Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants'' (1844, reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2011) p136</ref>
* [[February 3]] – [[Napoleonic Wars]] and [[Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)|Anglo-Spanish War]] – [[Battle of Montevideo (1807)|Battle of Montevideo]]: The British Army captures [[Montevideo]] from the [[Spanish Empire]], as part of the [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata]].
* [[February 7]] – [[Napoleon]] leads the forces of the [[First French Empire|French Empire]] in an invasion of the [[Russian Empire]], and begins fighting at the [[Battle of Eylau]] against Russian and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] forces.<ref>William Hodgson, ''The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Once Emperor of the French, who Died in Exile, at St. Helena, After a Captivity of Six Years' Duration'' (Orlando Hodgson, 1841) p384</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Battle of Eylau]]: [[Napoleon]] fights a hard, but inconclusive battle against the Russians under [[Levin August, Count von Bennigsen|Bennigsen]].
* [[February 10]] – The [[United States Coast Survey]] is established; work begins on [[August 3]], [[1816]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Henri Christophe|Henry Christopher]] is elected first President of the [[State of Haiti]], ruling the northern part of the country.
* [[February 19]] – In [[Alabama]], former [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Aaron Burr]] is tried for [[Burr conspiracy|conspiracy]], but acquitted.
* [[March 2]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passes an [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves|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" (to take effect 1 January 1808).
* [[March 25]]
** The [[Slave Trade Act]] becomes law, abolishing the [[slave trade]] in the [[British Empire]] (slavery itself is abolished in British colonies in [[1833]]).
** The [[Swansea and Mumbles Railway]] in South Wales, at this time known as the [[Oystermouth Railway]], becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
* [[March 29]] – [[Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers|H. W. Olbers]] discovers the [[asteroid]] [[4 Vesta|Vesta]].
=== April–June ===
* [[April 4]]–[[April 12|12]] – [[Froberg mutiny]]: The British suppress a mutiny at [[Fort Ricasoli]], [[Malta]], by men of the irregularly-recruited Frobert Regiment.
* [[April 14]] – [[African Institution]] holds its first meeting in London; it is intended to improve social conditions in Sierra Leone.
* [[April 27]] – French forces capture [[Danzig]] after a [[Siege of Danzig (1807)|6-week siege]].
* [[May 22]] – A [[grand jury]] indicts former [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Aaron Burr]] for [[treason]].
* [[May 29]] – [[Selim III]], [[Ottoman Emperor]] since [[1789]], is deposed in favour of his nephew [[Mustafa IV]].
* [[May 31]] – [[Primitive Methodism]] originates in an All Day of Prayer at [[Mow Cop]], in the north midlands of England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Farndale|first=W. E.|title=The Secret of Mow Cop: a new appraisal of the origins of Primitive Methodism|publisher=Epworth Press|location=London|year=1950}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] – The [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland|Duke of Portland]] wins the [[1807 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election]].
* [[June 14]] – [[Battle of Friedland]]: [[Napoleon]] decisively defeats [[Levin August, Count von Bennigsen|Bennigsen]]'s Russian army.
* [[June 22]] – [[Chesapeake–Leopard Affair|''Chesapeake''–''Leopard'' Affair]]: British [[Royal Navy]] [[warship]] [[HMS Leopard (1790)|HMS ''Leopard'']] attacks and boards [[United States Navy]] [[frigate]] [[USS Chesapeake (1799)|USS ''Chesapeake'']] off [[Norfolk, Virginia]], seeking [[Desertion|deserters]].
=== July–September ===
* [[July 5]] – A disastrous British attack is mounted against [[Buenos Aires]], during the second failed [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata#Second invasion - 1807|invasion]] of the [[Río de la Plata]].
* [[July 7]]–[[July 9|9]] – The [[Peace of Tilsit]] is signed between France, Prussia and Russia. [[Napoleon]] and Russian Emperor [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] ally together against the British. The Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the [[Duchy of Warsaw]] in their former Polish lands, and the [[Kingdom of Westphalia]] in western Germany. [[Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic)|Free City of Danzig]] is also formed.
* [[July 13]] – With the death of [[Henry Benedict Stuart]], the last [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom, [[Jacobitism]] comes to an effective end.
* [[July 20]] – [[Nicéphore Niépce]] is awarded a patent by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] for the [[Pyréolophore]], the world's first [[internal combustion engine]], after it successfully powers a boat upstream on the river [[Saône]] in France.
* [[August 17]] – The ''[[North River Steamboat]]'', [[Robert Fulton]]'s first American [[steamboat]], leaves New York City for [[Albany, New York|Albany]] on the [[Hudson River]], inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
* [[September 1]] – Former U.S. [[Vice President]] [[Aaron Burr]] is acquitted of [[treason]]. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of [[Louisiana]] and Mexico, to become part of an independent republic.
* [[September 2]]–[[September 7|7]] – [[Battle of Copenhagen (1807)|Battle of Copenhagen]]: The British [[Royal Navy]] bombards [[Copenhagen]] with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets, to prevent the [[Dano-Norwegian navy]] from surrendering to [[Napoleon]]; 30% of the city is destroyed, and 2,000 citizens are killed.
* [[September 7]] – [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]], the first [[Protestant]] [[missionary]] to China, arrives in [[Guangzhou]] (Canton).<ref>"Sketch of the Canton Protestant Mission", by Rev. John Chalmers, in ''The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal'', Volume 7 (American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1876) p174</ref>
* [[September 27]] – Napoleon purchases the [[Scipione Borghese|Borghese]] [[Borghese Collection|art collection]], including the [[Antinous Mondragone]], and brings it to Paris.<ref>Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, ''Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900'' (Yale University Press, 1982) p281</ref>
=== October–December ===
* [[October 9]] – [[Prussian Reform Movement (1806–1815)|Prussian Reform Movement]]: [[Serfdom]] is abolished by the October edict.
* [[October 13]] – The [[Geological Society of London]] is founded.
* [[November 24]] – [[Battle of Abrantes]], Portugal: The French under [[Jean-Andoche Junot]] take the town.
* [[November 29]] – Portuguese Queen [[Maria I of Portugal|Maria I]] and the [[Court (royal)|Court]] embark at [[Lisbon]], bound for Brazil. [[Rio de Janeiro]] becomes the Portuguese capital.
* [[December 17]] – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
* [[December 22]] – The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Embargo Act of 1807|Embargo Act]].
* [[December 27]] – Thomas Parr, Resident of [[British Bencoolen]], is decapitated by a mob.
=== Date unknown ===
* The municipality of [[Mogpog]] in [[Marinduque]], [[Philippines]], is founded.
* The world's oldest international football stadium, the [[Racecourse Ground]], opens in [[Wrexham]], Wales, although it will not host football games until [[1872]].
== Births ==
=== January–June ===
[[File:Robert Edward Lee.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert E. Lee]]]]
* [[January 13]] – [[Napoleon Bonaparte Buford]], American general, railroad executive (d. [[1883]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Robert E. Lee]], American Confederate general (d. [[1870]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Robert McClure]], Irish-born Arctic explorer (d. [[1873]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Lajos Batthyány]], 1st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1849]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet (d. [[1882]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Wilford Woodruff]], American religious leader (d. [[1898]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Josephine of Leuchtenberg]], Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. [[1876]])
* [[April 2]] – [[William F. Packer]], American politician (d. [[1870]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Jane Digby]], English adventurer (d. [[1881]])
* [[April 20]] – [[John Milton (Florida politician)|John Milton]], Governor of Florida (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Charlotta Djurström]], Swedish actress and theater manager (d. [[1877]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Louis Agassiz]], French zoologist, geologist (d. [[1873]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Adrien-François Servais]], Belgian musician (d. [[1866]])
=== July–December ===
[[File:Giuseppe Garibaldi (1866).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Giuseppe Garibaldi]]]]
* [[July 4]] – [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]], Italian patriot (d. [[1882]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Emilie Flygare-Carlén]], Swedish author (d. [[1892]])
* [[August 11]] – [[David Rice Atchison]], American politician (d. [[1886]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Jules Grévy]], 4th President of France (d. [[1891]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]], American historical editor, politician and diplomat (d. [[1886]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Fredrika Runeberg]], Finnish writer (d. [[1879]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Henry Sewell]], 1st [[Premier of New Zealand]] (d. [[1879]])
* [[September 16]] – [[John Lenthall (shipbuilder)|John Lenthall]], American naval architect and shipbuilder (d. [[1882]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Harriet Taylor]], English philosophical writer (d. [[1858]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Barbu Catargiu]], 1st Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1862]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Edward Bigge]], English cleric, 1st [[Archdeacon of Lindisfarne]] (d. [[1844]].
* [[November 15]] – [[William McKinley, Sr.]], father of [[William McKinley]]
* [[December 8]] – [[Friedrich Traugott Kützing]], German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. [[1893]])
* [[December 17]] – [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], Quaker poet, abolitionist (d. [[1892]])
== Deaths ==
=== January–June ===
[[File:Paoli.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Pasquale Paoli]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet]], British admiral (b. ca. [[1758]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Pasquale Paoli]], Corsican patriot, military leader (b. [[1725]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Louise du Pierry]], French astronomer (b. [[1746]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Jean Thurel]], French soldier (b. [[1698]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Jérôme Lalande]], French astronomer (b. [[1732]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], regent of Weimar and Eisenach (b. [[1739]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau]], French soldier (b. [[1725]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Eliphalet Dyer]], American statesman, judge (b. [[1721]])
* [[May 17]] – [[John Gunby]], Maryland soldier in the [[American Revolutionary War]] (b. [[1745]])
* [[May 18]] – [[John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)|John Douglas]], Scottish Anglican bishop, man of letters (b. [[1721]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Andrew Sterett]], American naval officer (b. [[1778]])
=== July–December ===
[[File:Angelica Kauffmann by Angelica Kauffmann.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Angelica Kauffman]]]]
* [[July 13]] – [[Henry Benedict Stuart]], Italian-born cardinal, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (b. [[1725]])
* [[September 14]] – [[George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend]], British field marshal (b. [[1724]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Jean-François Houbigant]], French perfumer (b. [[1752]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil]], Prime Minister of King [[Louis XVI of France]] (b. [[1730]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Angelica Kauffman]], Swiss painter (b. [[1741]])
* [[November 8]]
**[[Darejan Dadiani]], Georgian queen consort (b. [[1738]])
**[[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]], French engineer, hydrographer, politician, and Minister of the Navy (1799-1801) (b. [[1752]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Jean-François Rewbell]], French politician (b. [[1747]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Oliver Ellsworth]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1745]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm]], German writer (b. [[1723]])
* [[December 21]] – [[John Newton]], English cleric, hymnist (b. [[1725]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo]], Portuguese diplomat, scientist (b. [[1750]])
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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[[File:Napoleon friedland.jpg|thumb|right|[[June 14]]: [[Battle of Friedland]]]]
== Events ==
=== January–March ===
* [[January 7]] – The United Kingdom issues an [[Orders in Council (1807)|Order in Council]] prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.<ref>William S. Dudley, ed. ''The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History'' (Naval Historical Center, 1985) p34</ref>
* [[January 20]] – The [[Sierra Leone Company]], faced with bankruptcy because of the outlawing of the slave trade in British colonies, petitions the British government for purchase and transfer of its property to the Crown; Parliament approves the transfer on [[July 29]], and it takes effect on [[January 1]], [[1808]].<ref>Stephen Tomkins, ''The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain'' (Lion Books, 2012) p200</ref>
* [[January 22]] – The United Kingdom abolishes the slave trade in all of its colonies, effective [[March 1]], [[1808]].
* [[February 3]] – [[Napoleonic Wars]] and [[Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)|Anglo-Spanish War]] – [[Battle of Montevideo (1807)|Battle of Montevideo]]: The British Army captures [[Montevideo]] from the [[Spanish Empire]], as part of the [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata]].
* [[February 7]] – [[Napoleon]] leads the forces of the [[First French Empire|French Empire]] in an invasion of the [[Russian Empire]], and begins fighting at the [[Battle of Eylau]] against Russian and [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] forces.<ref>William Hodgson, ''The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Once Emperor of the French, who Died in Exile, at St. Helena, After a Captivity of Six Years' Duration'' (Orlando Hodgson, 1841) p384</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Battle of Eylau]]: [[Napoleon]] fights a hard, but inconclusive battle against the Russians under [[Levin August, Count von Bennigsen|Bennigsen]].
* [[February 10]] – The [[United States Coast Survey]] is established; work begins on [[August 3]], [[1816]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Henri Christophe|Henry Christopher]] is elected first President of the [[State of Haiti]], ruling the northern part of the country.
* [[February 19]] – In [[Alabama]], former [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Aaron Burr]] is tried for [[Burr conspiracy|conspiracy]], but acquitted.
* [[March 2]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passes an [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves|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" (to take effect 1 January 1808).
* [[March 25]]
** The [[Slave Trade Act]] becomes law, abolishing the [[slave trade]] in the [[British Empire]] (slavery itself is abolished in British colonies in [[1833]]).
** The [[Swansea and Mumbles Railway]] in South Wales, at this time known as the [[Oystermouth Railway]], becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
* [[March 29]] – [[Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers|H. W. Olbers]] discovers the [[asteroid]] [[4 Vesta|Vesta]].
=== April–June ===
* [[April 4]]–[[April 12|12]] – [[Froberg mutiny]]: The British suppress a mutiny at [[Fort Ricasoli]], [[Malta]], by men of the irregularly-recruited Frobert Regiment.
* [[April 14]] – [[African Institution]] holds its first meeting in London; it is intended to improve social conditions in Sierra Leone.
* [[April 27]] – French forces capture [[Danzig]] after a [[Siege of Danzig (1807)|6-week siege]].
* [[May 22]] – A [[grand jury]] indicts former [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Aaron Burr]] for [[treason]].
* [[May 29]] – [[Selim III]], [[Ottoman Emperor]] since [[1789]], is deposed in favour of his nephew [[Mustafa IV]].
* [[May 31]] – [[Primitive Methodism]] originates in an All Day of Prayer at [[Mow Cop]], in the north midlands of England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Farndale|first=W. E.|title=The Secret of Mow Cop: a new appraisal of the origins of Primitive Methodism|publisher=Epworth Press|location=London|year=1950}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] – The [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland|Duke of Portland]] wins the [[1807 United Kingdom general election|United Kingdom general election]].
* [[June 14]] – [[Battle of Friedland]]: [[Napoleon]] decisively defeats [[Levin August, Count von Bennigsen|Bennigsen]]'s Russian army.
* [[June 22]] – [[Chesapeake–Leopard Affair|''Chesapeake''–''Leopard'' Affair]]: British [[Royal Navy]] [[warship]] [[HMS Leopard (1790)|HMS ''Leopard'']] attacks and boards [[United States Navy]] [[frigate]] [[USS Chesapeake (1799)|USS ''Chesapeake'']] off [[Norfolk, Virginia]], seeking [[Desertion|deserters]].
=== July–September ===
* [[July 5]] – A disastrous British attack is mounted against [[Buenos Aires]], during the second failed [[British invasions of the Río de la Plata#Second invasion - 1807|invasion]] of the [[Río de la Plata]].
* [[July 7]]–[[July 9|9]] – The [[Peace of Tilsit]] is signed between France, Prussia and Russia. [[Napoleon]] and Russian Emperor [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] ally together against the British. The Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the [[Duchy of Warsaw]] in their former Polish lands, and the [[Kingdom of Westphalia]] in western Germany. [[Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic)|Free City of Danzig]] is also formed.
* [[July 13]] – With the death of [[Henry Benedict Stuart]], the last [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom, [[Jacobitism]] comes to an effective end.
* [[July 20]] – [[Nicéphore Niépce]] is awarded a patent by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] for the [[Pyréolophore]], the world's first [[internal combustion engine]], after it successfully powers a boat upstream on the river [[Saône]] in France.
* [[August 17]] – The ''[[North River Steamboat]]'', [[Robert Fulton]]'s first American [[steamboat]], leaves New York City for [[Albany, New York|Albany]] on the [[Hudson River]], inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
* [[September 1]] – Former U.S. [[Vice President]] [[Aaron Burr]] is acquitted of [[treason]]. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of [[Louisiana]] and Mexico, to become part of an independent republic.
* [[September 2]]–[[September 7|7]] – [[Battle of Copenhagen (1807)|Battle of Copenhagen]]: The British [[Royal Navy]] bombards [[Copenhagen]] with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets, to prevent the [[Dano-Norwegian navy]] from surrendering to [[Napoleon]]; 30% of the city is destroyed, and 2,000 citizens are killed.
* [[September 7]] – [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]], the first [[Protestant]] [[missionary]] to China, arrives in [[Guangzhou]] (Canton).<ref>"Sketch of the Canton Protestant Mission", by Rev. John Chalmers, in ''The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal'', Volume 7 (American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1876) p174</ref>
* [[September 27]] – Napoleon purchases the [[Scipione Borghese|Borghese]] [[Borghese Collection|art collection]], including the [[Antinous Mondragone]], and brings it to Paris.<ref>Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, ''Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900'' (Yale University Press, 1982) p281</ref>
=== October–December ===
* [[October 9]] – [[Prussian Reform Movement (1806–1815)|Prussian Reform Movement]]: [[Serfdom]] is abolished by the October edict.
* [[October 13]] – The [[Geological Society of London]] is founded.
* [[November 24]] – [[Battle of Abrantes]], Portugal: The French under [[Jean-Andoche Junot]] take the town.
* [[November 29]] – Portuguese Queen [[Maria I of Portugal|Maria I]] and the [[Court (royal)|Court]] embark at [[Lisbon]], bound for Brazil. [[Rio de Janeiro]] becomes the Portuguese capital.
* [[December 17]] – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
* [[December 22]] – The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Embargo Act of 1807|Embargo Act]].
* [[December 27]] – Thomas Parr, Resident of [[British Bencoolen]], is decapitated by a mob.
=== Date unknown ===
* The municipality of [[Mogpog]] in [[Marinduque]], [[Philippines]], is founded.
* The world's oldest international football stadium, the [[Racecourse Ground]], opens in [[Wrexham]], Wales, although it will not host football games until [[1872]].
== Births ==
=== January–June ===
[[File:Robert Edward Lee.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert E. Lee]]]]
* [[January 13]] – [[Napoleon Bonaparte Buford]], American general, railroad executive (d. [[1883]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Robert E. Lee]], American Confederate general (d. [[1870]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Robert McClure]], Irish-born Arctic explorer (d. [[1873]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Lajos Batthyány]], 1st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1849]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], American poet (d. [[1882]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Wilford Woodruff]], American religious leader (d. [[1898]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Josephine of Leuchtenberg]], Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. [[1876]])
* [[April 2]] – [[William F. Packer]], American politician (d. [[1870]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Jane Digby]], English adventurer (d. [[1881]])
* [[April 20]] – [[John Milton (Florida politician)|John Milton]], Governor of Florida (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Charlotta Djurström]], Swedish actress and theater manager (d. [[1877]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Louis Agassiz]], French zoologist, geologist (d. [[1873]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Adrien-François Servais]], Belgian musician (d. [[1866]])
=== July–December ===
[[File:Giuseppe Garibaldi (1866).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Giuseppe Garibaldi]]]]
* [[July 4]] – [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]], Italian patriot (d. [[1882]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Emilie Flygare-Carlén]], Swedish author (d. [[1892]])
* [[August 11]] – [[David Rice Atchison]], American politician (d. [[1886]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Jules Grévy]], 4th President of France (d. [[1891]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]], American historical editor, politician and diplomat (d. [[1886]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Fredrika Runeberg]], Finnish writer (d. [[1879]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Henry Sewell]], 1st [[Premier of New Zealand]] (d. [[1879]])
* [[September 16]] – [[John Lenthall (shipbuilder)|John Lenthall]], American naval architect and shipbuilder (d. [[1882]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Harriet Taylor]], English philosophical writer (d. [[1858]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Barbu Catargiu]], 1st Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1862]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Edward Bigge]], English cleric, 1st [[Archdeacon of Lindisfarne]] (d. [[1844]].
* [[November 15]] – [[William McKinley, Sr.]], father of [[William McKinley]]
* [[December 8]] – [[Friedrich Traugott Kützing]], German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. [[1893]])
* [[December 17]] – [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], Quaker poet, abolitionist (d. [[1892]])
== Deaths ==
=== January–June ===
[[File:Paoli.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Pasquale Paoli]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet]], British admiral (b. ca. [[1758]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Pasquale Paoli]], Corsican patriot, military leader (b. [[1725]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Louise du Pierry]], French astronomer (b. [[1746]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Jean Thurel]], French soldier (b. [[1698]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Jérôme Lalande]], French astronomer (b. [[1732]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], regent of Weimar and Eisenach (b. [[1739]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau]], French soldier (b. [[1725]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Eliphalet Dyer]], American statesman, judge (b. [[1721]])
* [[May 17]] – [[John Gunby]], Maryland soldier in the [[American Revolutionary War]] (b. [[1745]])
* [[May 18]] – [[John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury)|John Douglas]], Scottish Anglican bishop, man of letters (b. [[1721]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Andrew Sterett]], American naval officer (b. [[1778]])
=== July–December ===
[[File:Angelica Kauffmann by Angelica Kauffmann.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Angelica Kauffman]]]]
* [[July 13]] – [[Henry Benedict Stuart]], Italian-born cardinal, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (b. [[1725]])
* [[September 14]] – [[George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend]], British field marshal (b. [[1724]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Jean-François Houbigant]], French perfumer (b. [[1752]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil]], Prime Minister of King [[Louis XVI of France]] (b. [[1730]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Angelica Kauffman]], Swiss painter (b. [[1741]])
* [[November 8]]
**[[Darejan Dadiani]], Georgian queen consort (b. [[1738]])
**[[Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait]], French engineer, hydrographer, politician, and Minister of the Navy (1799-1801) (b. [[1752]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Jean-François Rewbell]], French politician (b. [[1747]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Oliver Ellsworth]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1745]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm]], German writer (b. [[1723]])
* [[December 21]] – [[John Newton]], English cleric, hymnist (b. [[1725]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo]], Portuguese diplomat, scientist (b. [[1750]])
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:1807}}
[[Category:1807| ]]' |
