1803

Events

   * William Osgoode, Chief Justice of Lower Canada, ruled that slavery was
     inconsistent with British Law.
   * January 30 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and
     possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Lousiana Purchase.
   * February 24 - The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v.
     Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.
   * March 1 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from
     August 7, 1953.
   * April 30 - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
   * May 18 - The United Kingdom declares war on France after France refused
     to withdraw from Dutch territory.
   * July 4 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
   * July 5 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of
     Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
   * July 26 - The wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon is opened, being
     the first public railway line of the world.
   * September 23 - British troops defeat an Indian army in the Battle of
     Assaye
   * Argovia, Grisons, St. Gallen, Thurgau, the Ticino, Vaud become Swiss
     cantons.

Births

   * February 2 - Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate general (+ 1862)
   * February 15 - John Sutter, California pioneer (+ 1880)
   * May 12 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist
   * May 24 - Charles Bonaparte
   * May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist (+ 1882)
   * May 25 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, novelist and playwright (+ 1873)
   * June 24 - George James Webb, composer
   * July 31 - John Ericsson - Swedish inventor and engineer
   * November 14 - Jacob Abbott, writer
   * November 29 - Christian Doppler (Doppler effect)
   * December 11 - Hector Berlioz, French composer

Deaths

   * Jacques-Donatien Le Ray -- a "Father of the American Revolution"
   * September 27 - Samuel Adams, American patriot
   * October 18 - Choderlos de Laclos, author (+ 1803)

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