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| 1804 |
| | | The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon sends an ill-judged message to royalist opponents when he orders the seizure and execution of the young duke of Enghien | |
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| | | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from St Louis to explore up the Missouri river and west to the coast | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon has himself proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate | |
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| 1804 |
| | | The city of Hobart is founded on the southern coast of Tasmania | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Beethoven changes the dedication of his third symphony on hearing that his hero, Napoleon, has made himself an emperor | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded by a bullet to the head in a duel with his political adversary Aaron Burr | |
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| 1804 |
| | | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French in a magnificent ceremony in Notre Dame | |
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