1805

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{{C19 year in topic}}{{Year article header|1805}} After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

= April–June =

= July–September =

  • August 25Treaty of Bogenhausen is concluded between France and Bavaria forming a military alliance
  • August 27 – Napoleon orders the Grande Armée ("The Great Army") of some 165,000 men to march to the Rhine River to deal with the Austrian and Russian threats on the frontier. The French army is organized into seven corps and is supported by 36–40 cannons each. Napoleon orders Marshal Joachim Murat with his I Cavalry Corps (some 20,000 men), to make feint attacks through the Black Forest in south-west Germany.
  • August 29Emperor Franz I of Austria and his council of ministers vote in favor of going to war with France.Kinley Brauer and William E. Wright, Austria in the Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Berghahn Books, 1990) p11
  • 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."Baird, David", in A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3, ed. by Hugh James Rose (T. Fellowes, 1857) p20
  • September 21King Ferdinand of Naples signs a treaty in Paris agreeing to keep Naples neutral during the war between France and the allied powers.Tales of the Wars; Or, Naval and Military Chronicle (William Mark Clark, 1836) p329
  • September 29Admiral Nelson of the British Royal Navy takes command of the fleet off the coast of Cadiz, in order to counteract the navies of France and Spain.The Englishman's library: comprising a series of historical, biographical, and national information (Charles Knight, 1824) p165

= October–December =

= Date unknown =

Births

= January–June =

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= July–December =

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= Undated =

  • Maiden of Ludmir, Jewish religious leader (d. 1888)
  • James Pratt, last of two men to be executed in UK for homosexuality (d. 1835)
  • Cochise, Indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1874)
  • Jesse Chisholm, Indigenous American (Cherokee) fur trader and merchant (d. 1868)

Deaths

= January–June =

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= July–December =

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= Undated =

References

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