Image: Storm Rising at Sea. jpg | Storm Rising at Sea, 1804, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

—— ‘ Sur la température de la mer soit à sa surface, soit à diverses profondeurs ’, Annales du Muséum national d ’ histoire naturelle, tome 5, an XIII ( 1804 ), pp. 123 – 48 translation: ‘ Fragment from Peron, with notices from other voyagers, on the Temperature of the Sea, at great depths, far from Land ’, American Journal of Science, vol.

Elevated to the dignity of Generalissimo of the Army of Land and Sea of Spain ( 1804 ), he was granted a private bodyguard.

The author Sea Lion ( the Pseudonym of Geoffrey Bennett, a career naval officer ), based his 1950 novel The Diamond Rock on the 1804 event.

Officially established in 1803 as " Corps of River Fencibles of the City of London ", by 1804 they had uniformed commissioned officers in command.

In 1804, veterans of the Glengarry Fencibles, a Highland regiment that served in Europe with the

In 1804, he had founded the Austrian Empire and became Francis I ( Franz I.

In 1804, he had no compunction about announcing that through his authority as Holy Roman Emperor, he declared he was now Emperor of Austria ( at the time a geographical term that had little resonance ).

Louis Bonaparte was the nephew of the famous Napoleon Bonaparte, who had become dictator and then Emperor of France from 1804 until 1814.

In the United States, all the northern states had abolished the institution of slavery between 1777 and 1804, although southern states clung tightly to the " peculiar institution ".

Johan Frederich Reichert, who later agreed to become Rapp's adopted son and took the name of Frederick Reichert Rapp, reported in a letter dated February 25, 1804, that there were " at least 100 families or 500 persons actually ready to go " even if they had to sacrifice their property.

In 1804, while Rapp and his associates remained in the United States looking for a place to settle, his followers sailed to America aboard several vessels and made their way to western Pennsylvania, where they waited until land had been selected for their new settlement.

In 1777 he married again, to Ann MacGregor, daughter of a Glasgow dye-maker, with whom he had two children: Gregory ( 1777 – 1804 ), who became a geologist and mineralogist, and Janet ( 1779 – 1794 ).

Søren had spent his childhood at Gjerstad, and had also served as chaplain there ; and after his father's death in 1804, Søren was appointed pastor at Gjerstad and the family moved there.

For the next 17 years until 1801 ( and again from 1804 to 1806 ), Pitt, the Tory, was Prime Minister in the same sense that Walpole, the Whig, had been earlier.

In 1804, he had moved from the University of Kiel to the University of Landshut, but, on being commanded by King Maximilian Joseph to draft a penal code for Bavaria ( Strafgesetzbuch für das Königreich Bayern ), in 1805 he moved to Munich where he was given a high appointment in the Ministry of Justice and was ennobled in 1808.

Malthus married his cousin Harriet on 12 April 1804 and had three children: Henry, Emily and Lucy.

The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L ’ amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer ( a score of which was owned by Beethoven ).

On 4 September 1804, Somers assumed command of fire ship Intrepid which had been fitted out as a " floating volcano " to be sailed into Tripoli harbor and blown up in the midst of the corsair fleet close under the walls of the city.

The troops had completed the construction of the fort by the summer of 1804 ; it was a log-built fort enclosed in a double stockade, with two blockhouses.

Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson, and Pinckney had been the unsuccessful Federalist candidate in the election of 1804.

By 1804 Haiti had won its independence, the Louisiana Territory had been sold to the United States of America, and British naval superiority threatened any potential for France to establish colonies outside Europe.

Although studying an array of subjects at the school, Foucault's particular interest was soon drawn to philosophy, reading not only the works of Hegel and Marx that he had been exposed to by Hyppolite but also studying the writings of the philosophers Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), Edmund Husserl ( 1859 – 1938 ) and most significantly, Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ).

As a matter of fact, since the Spring of 1804 informal talks, mediated by Talleyrand, had been under way with the Batavian envoy in Paris, Schimmelpenninck, who had a good personal rapport with Napoleon ( by now emperor ).

When Napoleon indicated that he preferred a centralized organization of the Dutch state ( as the re-federalized model of the Staatsbewind had clearly not worked out ), he did not hesitate to implement this in his project of a new constitution, that he constructed in the Summer of 1804 in consultation with the Staatsbewind.

However, as France was then undergoing the decade of turmoil as the First French Republic ( 21 September 1792 – 2 December 1804 ), and as he had been imprisoned from August 1792 until his death from illness in 1795 at the age of 10, he had never been officially crowned as king, nor had he ruled.

In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a " soporific principle " (), which he called " morphium " in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams ; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug.

The first steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick ; it first ran on 21 February 1804, although it was some years before steam locomotive design became economically practical.

The first letter, dated 21 November 1804, discussed Gauss ' Disquisitiones and presented some of Germain's work on Fermat's Last Theorem.

The Mumbles Railway Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1804, and the first passenger railway ( similar to streetcars in the US some 30 years later ) started operating in 1807.

Following Hamilton's death in 1804, a list that he drew up became public ; it claimed fully two-thirds of the essays for Hamilton, including some that seemed more likely the work of Madison ( Nos.

The city continued to grow, and by 1800 held some 53, 000 residents, leading to Lille becoming the county seat of the Nord départment in 1804.

* Finland ( since 1804 ): ( mostly Mişärs )-19th-from a group of some 20 villages in the Sergach region on the Volga River.

It was a curiosity when Meriwether Lewis sent some slips and cuttings to President Jefferson in March 1804.

Leonard Gillespie, Surgeon to the Fleet, wrote in 1804 that pneumonia was common with some cases becoming fatal carditis.

Lewis and Clark made camp at what would later be known as the Cut-Off on June 12, 1804, and it was here that the expedition met with Pierre Dorion, a man who had reportedly been with the Sioux for 20 years and was thought to have some influence upon them.

Charles Bannister ( 1738 – 1804 ), English actor and singer, was born in Gloucestershire, and after some amateur and provincial experience made his first London appearance in 1762 as Will in The Orators at the Haymarket Theatre.

Napoleon Bonaparte's awarding some of the first Légions d ' honneur on 16 August 1804 at the camp of Boulogne-sur-Mer | Boulogne

Since there was very much contact between Portugal and its colonies, particularly Brazil ( between 1804 and 1822 the Portuguese court resided in Rio de Janeiro since the king had fled from Portugal after Napoleon's invasion ), it is not strange that Portuguese fado has some roots in Afro-Brazilian slave dances and also Spanish and Portuguese songs ; like Fandango, Semba, Lundu and Modinha and on the other ( notice that these roots are similar to those of the Samba ).

During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1804 the British established a fort at Diamond Rock, outside Fort de France, and garrisoned it with some 120 sailors and five cannons.

In addition, by the time he submitted his dissertation in 1804 ( September ), he was in regular contact at Jena with Jakob Friedrich Fries and Karl David Ilgen, who perhaps led him to his contact with Johann Severin Vater, a scholar whose work he both admired and, in some respects, duplicated independently.

In 1837, the young Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1804 – 1864 ) collected some of his stories as Twice-Told Tales, a volume rich in symbolism and occult incidents.

They were written at latest in 1804, and include some interesting fragments on the close of the consulate, Moreau, etc.

The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

The work of the Commission on codification was also inspired by some of the modernizations found in the 1804 Napoleonic code.

He then returned to London and exhibited pictures at the Royal Academy for some years from 1804, but from 1807 onwards devoted himself mainly to sculpture.

Towards the end of the century the fashion for scenic wallpaper revived in both England and France, leading to some enormous panoramas, like the 1804 20 strip wide Panorama, designed by the artist Jean-Gabriel Charvet for the French Manufacture Joseph Dufour et Cie showing the Voyages of Captain Cook.

While the world's biggest spiders are mygalomorphs — Theraphosa blondi ( Latreille, 1804 ) has a body length of 10 cm, and a leg span of 28 cm — some species are less than one millimeter long.

Following the death of Kempelen, the Turk remained un-exhibited until some time before 1804 when Kempelen's son decided to sell it to Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, a Bavarian musician with an interest in various machines and devices.

The year 1804 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

In Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia executive authority was exercised by a Lieutenant-Governor for some years before the first Governor was appointed ; Tasmania was founded in 1804, Western Australia in 1828 and Victoria in 1835.