1805 in the United States

Incumbents

[[Federal government of the United States|Federal government]]

• President: Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia)
• Vice President:

• Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nathaniel Macon (DR-North Carolina)
• Congress: 8th (until March 4), 9th (starting March 4)

State governments

Events

• January 11 – Michigan Territory is created.
• February 11 – Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea, is born with Meriwether Lewis aiding in the baby's delivery.
• February 15 – Harmony Society formally established in the U.S. at Harmony, Pennsylvania.
• March 1 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.
• March 3 – Louisiana Territory is created.
• March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States, and George Clinton is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
• April 7 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs Fort Mandan, beginning their journey to the Pacific Ocean.
• April 27 – Battle of Derne: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").
• June 4 – The First Barbary War ends between Tripoli and the United States of America.
• June 11 – Detroit burns to the ground; most of the city is destroyed.
• June 13 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming they are heading in the right direction.
• June 30 – Michigan Territory is effective.
• July 4 – Louisiana Territory is effective.
• October 18 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: William Clark sights Mount Hood through the fog, some 45 miles (72 km) away.
• November 7 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean.

Undated

• Boston Gleaning Circle, a female literary organization, is established.

Ongoing

• First Barbary War (1801–1805)
• Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806)

Births

• January 8 – Orson Hyde, religious leader (died 1878)
• February 11 – Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea, explorer, guide, fur trapper, trader and military scout (died 1866)
• February 18 – Louis M. Goldsborough, admiral (died 1877)
• March 23 – Sears Cook Walker, mathematician and astronomer (died 1853)
• June 14 – Robert Anderson, United States Army officer during the American Civil War (died 1871 in France)
• June 15 – William B. Ogden, Chicago politician and railroad executive (died 1877)
• July 10 – Jacob M. Howard, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1862 to 1871 (died 1871)
• September 6 – Horatio Greenough, sculptor (died 1852)
• September 19 – John Stevens Cabot Abbott, historian, pastor and pedagogical writer (died 1877)
• October 9 – William M. Gwin, U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1861 (died 1885)
• November 28 – John Lloyd Stephens, traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (died 1852)
• December 2 – Cicero Price, commodore (died 1888)
• December 10 – William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (died 1879)
• December 12 – Henry Wells, businessman, founder of Wells Fargo (died 1878)
• December 23 – Joseph Smith, religious leader, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1844)

Deaths

• January 7 – Ebenezer Sproat, Continental Army officer, pioneer in the Ohio Country (born 1752)
• January 9 – Noble Wimberly Jones, physician and delegate to the Continental Congress in 1781 and 1782 (born c. 1723)
• February 4 – John Sloss Hobart, jurist and politician (born 1738)
• June 17 – John Ames, captain in the American Revolutionary War (born 1738)
• August 28 – Christopher Gadsden, statesman (born 1724)
• September 27 – William Moultrie, general (born 1730)
• November – Robert Alexander, Maryland politician (born c. 1740)

References

References

1. "April 7, 1805". University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
2. "June 13, 1805". University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
3. "October 18, 1805". University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
4. (2002). "Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950". Univ. of Tennessee Press.