He succeeded Governor Philip Gidley King in 1805, having been offered the position by Sir Joseph Banks.

* Marguerite ( woman of color ), in 1805 filed the first " freedom suit " in St. Louis and succeeded in ending Indian slavery in the state of Missouri in 1836

George Clinton succeeded Burr as the second-term Vice President for Thomas Jefferson in 1805 ( and also served as James Madison's Vice President, making Clinton the first Vice President to serve under two presidents and the first Vice President to die in office ).

In 1805 Playfair exchanged the chair of mathematics for that of natural philosophy in succession to John Robison, whom also he succeeded as general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Anouvong succeeded to the throne in 1805 upon the death his brother, Chao Intawong (), Chaiya Sethathirath IV, who had succeeded their father, Phrachao Siribunsan () Chaiya Sethathirath III.

In 1805 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served until 1808, when he succeeded a Crowninshield to become one of Essex County's representatives in Congress, serving from December 1808 to March 1809, during which he led the successful effort to put an end to Jefferson's Embargo against maritime commerce.

In January 1805, he succeeded his uncle as Earl of Rosslyn according to the special remainder, being by this time considered a Tory, and after the end of the Napoleonic Wars continued his political career in the House of Lords.

He was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned sixth Baronet, who in 1805 succeeded his uncle Lord Rosslyn in the barony of Loughborough and earldom of Rosslyn.

* Sir James St Clair-Erskine, 6th Baronet ( 1762 – 1837 ) ( succeeded as Earl of Rosslyn in 1805 )

His grandson, the third Earl ( who succeeded his father in 1805 ), was a prominent diplomat.

* Sir Thomas ffrench, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1765 – 1814 ) ( succeeded as Baron ffrench in 1805 )

In 1798 Dance succeeded Thomas Sandby as professor of architecture at the Royal Academy, but as he failed to deliver a single lecture he was dismissed in 1805 and replaced by his former pupil, Sir John Soane.

In 1805, he succeeded Arthur Young as Secretary of the Smithfield Club.

He then succeeded Patrick Russell ( 1727 – 1805 ) as Naturalist to the Madras Government.

The Chemical Society of London succeeded where a number of previous chemical associations-the Lunar Society's London branch chemical society of the 1780s, the Animal Chemical Club of 1805, the London Chemical Society of 1824-failed.

Lord Mulgrave succeeded Lord Harrowby at the Foreign Office at the beginning of 1805, and gave Ward ( a family connection through their wives ) the post of under-secretary, Ward resigning a sinecure post he held as Welsh judge.

He was succeeded by Alexander Heinrich Braun ( 1805 – 1877 ),

As bishop he succeeded Uno von Troil, who had been made archbishop, and in 1805 he succeeded von Troil as archbishop of Uppsala as well, an appointment which also made him Pro-Chancellor of the University.

* George Hay ( succeeded 3 December 1778 – retired 24 August 1805 )

* Alexander Cameron ( succeeded 24 August 1805 – retired 20 August 1825 )

Born John Stuart, he was styled Lord Mount Stuart from his father's death in 1794, and succeeded his maternal grandfather as 7th Earl of Dumfries in 1803 ( adding the surname Crichton before that of Stuart in 1805 ), before succeeding his paternal grandfather as 2nd Marquess of Bute in 1814.

As his elder brother died at an early age, Tadakuni became heir in 1805 and was presented to Shogun Tokugawa Ienari and future Shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi in a formal audience in 1807.

His elder brother Charles Manners-Sutton was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 to 1828 and the father of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1834.

The death of his brother, John, in 1805 affected him strongly.

Jacob, who was still financially responsible for his mother, brother, and younger siblings, accepted a post in Paris as research assistant to von Savigny in 1805.

By 1805, he operated a warehouse in New Orleans to help disperse the goods smuggled by his brother Pierre Lafitte.

Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte ( 5 July 1805 – 17 June 1870 ) was a son of Jérôme Bonaparte, a brother of Napoleon I, and Elizabeth Patterson, an American.

He was the son of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1805 – 1870 ) and Susan May Williams ( 1812 – 1881 ), from whom the American line of the Bonaparte family descended, and a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Emperor Napoleon I.

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.

On 25 December 1805, Ferdinand had to give up Salzburg as well, which by the Treaty of Pressburg was annexed by his older brother, Emperor Francis II.

In stark contrast to 1805, by 1809, Austria had managed to reform its military and build a relatively modern and overall redoutable army, placed under the command of their best commander, Archduke Charles of Austria, brother of Emperor Francis I of Austria.

Rabbi Baruch Shalom ( 1805 – 1869 ) did not become a rebbe in his own right ; he chose to remain in Lubavitch and become a chasid of his youngest brother.

On 26 December 1805, Napoleon I of France declared Ferdinand deposed again and replaced him with his own brother Joseph Bonaparte on 30 March 1806.

On the death of his brother in 1805, Anouvong ascended the Vientiane throne as Chaiya Sethathirath IV.

His visit was not due to a decline in health as many have falsely claimed, but a result of a love for travel, trying to expose his four children to Europe, and a desire to copy a trip his brother John Jr. went on in 1803 to 1805.

After his victory and death at the Battle of Trafalgar, his brother was created Earl Nelson, of Trafalgar and of Merton in the County of Surrey, and Viscount Merton, of Trafalgar and of Merton in the County of Surrey, in 1805, in his honour.

Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( William Henry ; 25 November 1743 – 25 August 1805 ), was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of George II and a younger brother of George III.

It was created on 20 November 1805 for William Nelson, 2nd Baron Nelson, older brother of the famous Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.

In November 1805 he was created Viscount Merton, of Trafalgar and of Merton in the County of Surrey, and Earl Nelson, of Trafalgar and of Merton in the County of Surrey, in honour of his late brother and with similar remainder to the barony of 1801.

The witch-hunts inspired a nativist religious revival led by Tecumseh's brother Tenskwatawa (" The Prophet ") who emerged in 1805 as a leader among the witch hunters.

Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, Louis, king of Holland, briefly lived in the palace between 1805 and 1807.

* Francis William Newman ( 1805 – 1897 ), English man of letters, younger brother of Cardinal Newman

On January 1, 1805, with eleven Shaker communities already established in New York and New England, three Shaker missionaries, John Meacham, Benjamin Seth Youngs ( older brother of Isaac N. Youngs ), and Issachar Bates, set out to find new converts.

Francis William Newman ( 27 June 1805 – 7 October 1897 ), the younger brother of Cardinal Newman, was an English scholar and miscellaneous writer.