1803

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Years:	1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806

1803 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1803 MDCCCIII
French Republican calendar	11–12
Ab urbe condita	2556
Armenian calendar	1252 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԲ
Assyrian calendar	6553
Balinese saka calendar	1724–1725
Bengali calendar	1210
Berber calendar	2753
British Regnal year	43 Geo. 3 – 44 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2347
Burmese calendar	1165
Byzantine calendar	7311–7312
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4500 or 4293     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4501 or 4294
Coptic calendar	1519–1520
Discordian calendar	2969
Ethiopian calendar	1795–1796
Hebrew calendar	5563–5564
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1859–1860
- Shaka Samvat	1724–1725
- Kali Yuga	4903–4904
Holocene calendar	11803
Igbo calendar	803–804
Iranian calendar	1181–1182
Islamic calendar	1217–1218
Japanese calendar	Kyōwa 2 (享和２年)
Javanese calendar	1729–1730
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4136
Minguo calendar	109 before ROC 民前109年
Nanakshahi calendar	335
Thai solar calendar	2345–2346
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1929 or 1548 or 776     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1930 or 1549 or 777

1803 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1803 MDCCCIII
French Republican calendar	11–12
Ab urbe condita	2556
Armenian calendar	1252 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԲ
Assyrian calendar	6553
Balinese saka calendar	1724–1725
Bengali calendar	1210
Berber calendar	2753
British Regnal year	43 Geo. 3 – 44 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2347
Burmese calendar	1165
Byzantine calendar	7311–7312
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4500 or 4293     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4501 or 4294
Coptic calendar	1519–1520
Discordian calendar	2969
Ethiopian calendar	1795–1796
Hebrew calendar	5563–5564
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1859–1860
- Shaka Samvat	1724–1725
- Kali Yuga	4903–4904
Holocene calendar	11803
Igbo calendar	803–804
Iranian calendar	1181–1182
Islamic calendar	1217–1218
Japanese calendar	Kyōwa 2 (享和２年)
Javanese calendar	1729–1730
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4136
Minguo calendar	109 before ROC 民前109年
Nanakshahi calendar	335
Thai solar calendar	2345–2346
Tibetan calendar	阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1929 or 1548 or 776     — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1930 or 1549 or 777

1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

• January 4 - William Symington demostrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat".
• January 30 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
• February 21 - Edward Despard and six others are hanged, drawn and quartered for plotting to assassinate king George III and to destroy the Bank of England
• 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.
• March 12 - Port Gibson, MS is chartered
• April 30 - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
• May 18 - The United Kingdom redeclares 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 23 - Robert Emmet's uprising in Ireland begins
• July 26 - The wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon is opened, being the first public railway line of the world.
• August 3 – British begin Second Anglo-Maratha War against Sindhia of Gwalior
• September 20 - Irish rebel Robert Emmet is executed
• September 23 - The Battle of Assaye in India – British-lead troops defeat Maratha forces
• October 20 - Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.
• November 30 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France had transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).

• Aargau, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Thurgau, the Ticino, Vaud become Swiss cantons.
• France - the Livre Tournois (Tours Pound) is replaced by the Franc.
• William Osgoode, Chief Justice of Lower Canada, rules that slavery is inconsistent with British Law.

Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

• February 2 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862)
• February 15 - John Sutter, American pioneer (d. 1880)
• April 7 - Flora Tristan, French feminist (d. 1844)
• April 30 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
• May 12 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873)
• May 24 - Charles Lucien Bonaparte, French naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1857)
• May 25 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
• May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer (d. 1882)
• June 24 - George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
• July 24 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
• July 31 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
• September 4 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
• September 27 - Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
• September 28 - Prosper Mérimée, French writer (d. 1870)
• November 14 - Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
• November 29 - Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician (d. 1853)
• December 6 - Susanna Moddie, English writer (d. 1885)
• December 11 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)

Deaths

• January 18 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
• January 23 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
• February 9 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
• February 18 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719)
• February 20 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
• March 14 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)
• April 2 - Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)
• April 7 - Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary (b. 1743)
• June 24 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
• September 5 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
• September 15 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
• October 2 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
• October 26 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (b. 1721)
• November 23 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
• December 18 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher and writer (b. 1744)
• December 30 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French "Father of the American Revolution" (b. 1726)