1807

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

Years: 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 - 1807 - 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812

Events

• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Selim III (1789-1807) to Mustafa IV (1807-1808)
• February - Napoleon attacks Russia
• February 8 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen
• February 19 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason.
• March 2 - The United States Congress passes an 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."
• March 25 - The Slave Trade Act[?] becomes law abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[?].
• May 22 - Sufficient evidence is presented to a grand jury to indict former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason.
• July 13- With the death of Henry Benedict Stuart ,the last Stuart claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom the movement of Jacobitism ends.
• August - First voyage of first practical steamboat, the Cleremont, on Hudson River in New York

Births

• January 19 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate General
• February 27 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (+ 1882)
• May 28 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist and geologist (+ 1873)
• July 4 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, italian patriot
• July 13 - Henry Benedict Stuart, claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Henry IX.
• Louis Agassiz, geologist and naturalist

Deaths

• May 18 - John Douglas, Anglican bishop
• December 21 - John Newton cleric, songwriter (Amazing Grace)