1805

1805 was 66 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and 14 years before Alabama became a state.

Individuals

• August 17: Hosea Holcombe was ordained as a Baptist minister in Padgett's Creek, South Carolina.

Births

• September 29: Michael Tuomey, geologist
• John Oliver

Context

In 1805, Thomas Jefferson began his second presidential term. The First Barbary War ended. The British navy defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar. The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean.

Notable births in 1805 included artist Samuel Palmer, writer Hans Christian Andersen, mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, and Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. Notable deaths included philosopher William Paley, British general Charles Cornwallis, and British admiral Horatio Nelson.

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