In 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

In an 1803 letter to William Henry Harrison, Jefferson wrote:

* 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright and satirist ( b. 1803 )

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery, and named U. S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis its leader, who selected William Clark as his partner.

It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston.

" In 1803, William Pitt the Younger, also a Tory, suggested to a friend that " this person generally called the first minister " was an absolute necessity for a government to function, and expressed his belief that this person should be the minister in charge of the finances.

It was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston in one such ore, and named for the rose color of one of its chlorine compounds, produced after it reacted with the powerful acid mixture aqua regia.

Rhodium ( Greek rhodon ( ῥόδον ) meaning " rose ") was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, soon after his discovery of palladium.

Buckminster's close associate William Ellery Channing ( 1780 – 1842 ) was settled over the Federal Street Church in Boston, 1803 ; and in a few years he became the leader of the Unitarian movement.

William Allen ( December 18 or 27, 1803 – July 11, 1879 ) was an Democratic Representative, Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio.

* October 5 – William Todd ( 1803 – 1873 ), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee ( b. 1803 )

* December 30 – William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary ( d. 1803 )

* July 10 – William Todd ( 1803 – 1873 ), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee

The state donated the property to Columbia and Union colleges in 1803, which sold it to William Ferris Pell in 1820.

* 1803 – William Symington's Charlotte Dundas, generally considered to be the world's first practical steamboat, makes her first voyage.

On 24 December 1803, Jérôme married Elizabeth Patterson ( 1785 – 1879 ), daughter of Baltimore merchant William Patterson and his wife, Dorcas Spear.

Explorers William Clark and his slave York were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1803 – 1805 ), and William's older brother, General George Rogers Clark -- conqueror of the old Northwest Territory and Revolutionary War hero.

* Goetzmann, William H. Army Exploration in the American West 1803 – 1863 ( Yale University Press, 1959 ; University of Nebraska Press, 1979 )

Meriwether Lewis passed the Guyandotte and Big Sandy River peninsula on or about September 20, 1803 on his way down the Ohio River before meeting up with William Clark in Clarksville, Indiana.

On January 14, 1803, the Governor of Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, issued a similar proclamation defining the boundaries as beginning at a point where an east and west line passing through the southernmost extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect a north and south line, passing through the westernmost extreme of the lake, then north to the territorial boundary, then along said boundary line to a point where an east and west line passing through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan would intersect the same, then along this last mentioned line to the place of beginning.

* William Smith ( Ordnance ) ( 1721 – 1803 ), of Chichester, UK Treasurer of the Ordnance

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot ( 1803 – 1890 ) ( Liberal Member of Parliament for Glamorgan from 1830 until his death ) saw the potential of his property as a site for an extensive ironworks, which opened in early 1831.

In 1803, the Ames Shovel Company was established and became nationally known as having provided the shovels which laid the Union Pacific Railroad and opened the west.

* The Middlesex Canal was opened in 1803

The settlement was not officially known as Quakertown until its first post office opened in 1803.

A Congregational meeting house opened at Berlin center in 1803.

The double-track Lancaster Canal Tramroad was opened in 1803 with three steam-worked inclined planes and a low trestle bridge across the Ribble.

The College's main building, the Richard Hoggart Building, was originally designed as a school ( opened in 1844 ) by the architect John Shaw, Jr ( 1803 – 1870 ).

The Town Clock opened on October 20, 1803 at a location on the east slope of Citadel Hill on Barrack ( now Brunswick ) Street and has kept time for the community ever since.

By 1804, around 10, 000 tons was leaving the colliery, although the Dearne and Dove Canal had opened in late 1803, and only about half of the trade travelled the full length of the canal to the Aire and Calder.

In 1803, Stuart opened a studio in Washington, D. C.

During the 19th century the town acquired all the usual additions, a theatre in 1803, gas street lighting in 1838, a fire station and cottage hospital in 1877, a swimming pool opened in 1885 and a recreation ground opened in 1887.

The yeshiva was opened at Volozhin in 1803, some years after the Gaon's death, and revolutionised Torah study, with resulting impacts on all of Orthodox Jewry.

Category: Railway lines opened in 1803

The Surrey Iron Railway from Croydon to Wandsworth opened in 1803 and was the world's first public railway, which developed into an important means of transport, facilitating Croydon's growth as a commuter town for London ( including the City of London ).

The first, opened in 1803, was the horse-drawn Surrey Iron Railway from Wandsworth, which in 1805 was extended to Merstham, as the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway.

The Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, in 1803 opened vast Western expanses of fertile land, that exactly met the needs of the rapidly expanding population of yeomen farmers whom Jefferson championed.

Further proposals were made in the early 19th century, with schemes being proposed in 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1811, but none of these came to pass and as a result the first link to the sea was via a branch of the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal opened in 1822.

Further out of the city, the parishes of St John, St Luke, St Peter and St Matthew, in the Parramatta, Liverpool, Campbelltown and Windsor areas respectively, have Anglican churches which bear the same saints names ; St John's in Parramatta ( opened 1803 ); St. Luke's in Liverpool ( building began 1818 ); St. Peter's in Campbelltown ( opened 1823, the third oldest Anglican church in Australia ); and St. Matthew's in Windsor ( consecrated in 1822 )

The first bank was opened in Cranbrook in 1803 by Samuel Waddington.

Bacon Academy ’ s doors opened to the children of Colchester on the first of November 1803 and from that point forward, prepared many young men and women for the life that lay ahead.

The Depot, which was the central small arms depot for the British Army, opened in 1803 and was originally served by the canal, by way of its own branch which entered the depot through a portcullis.

Salendine Nook Baptist Church-Laund Road-geograph. org. uk-815028A meeting house was opened on the land of Joseph Morton between in 1743, and was replaced by a larger one in 1803.