1804

Benjamin Disraeli (Author, Statesman)

Franklin Pierce (former US President)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author, “Scarlet Letter”)

John Deere (Blacksmith and manufacturer, Founded Deere and Company)

George Childress (Lawyer, statesman, author of the Texas Declaration of Independence)

Napoleon was crowned emperor of France.

Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey.

The French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.

The Lewis and Clark expedition set out from St. Louis.

Ohio passed laws restricting the movement of Blacks.

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