[caption id=“attachment_1708” align=“alignright” width=“355”] Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo[/caption]

In the year 1805,  Thomas Jefferson is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States (Mar 4), Napoleon is crowned King of Italy (May 26), most of Detroit is destroyed in fires (Jun 4), Muhammad Ali Pasha, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt, rises to power (Jul 9), Sweden declares war on France (Oct 31), the Lewis and Clark expedition arrives at the Pacific Ocean (Nov 7), the French Republican Calendar featuring 10-day weeks is used for the last time (Dec 31), the Napoleonic Wars go on - and all these fine people were born:

1805-xxxx Anders Hansson Hakala** (b Långholm) married to Susanna Smeds - Kovjoki, Uusikaarlepyy, Sweden-Finland (1881/c.75) 1805-0101 Olli Karjalainen* tailor/ folklorist - Kerimäki, Sweden-Finland (1855/50) 1805-0107 David Whitmer* Mormon leader/Book of Mormon witness - Harrisburg, PA USA (1888/83) 1805-0108 John Bigler* lawyer/ politician/diplomat - Carlisle, PA USA (1871/66) 1805-0108 Orson Hyde* an early Mormon leader/missionary - Oxford, CT USA (1878/73) 1805-0127 Princess Sophie of Bavaria* daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria - Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1872/67) 1805-0127 Samuel Palmer* landscape painter/printmaker/writer - London, England (1881/76) 1805-0131 1805-0201 1805-0204 William Harrison Ainsworth* historical novelist  - Manchester, England (1882/76) 1805-0205 Anders Johan Hansinpoika Långholm** (Torp) father of Lena Långholm - Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1881/76) 1805-0208 Louis Auguste Blanqui* revolutionary - Puget-Théniers, France (1881/75) 1805-0210 1805-0220 Angelina Grimké Weld* (b Grimké) abolitionist/political activist/ women’s rights advocate - Charleston, SC USA (1879/74) 1805-0222 Sarah Fuller Adams* poet/hymnwriter - Old Harlow, Essex, England (1848/43) 1805-0228 1805-0301 1805-0303 Jonas Furrer* politician/P - Winterthur, Switzerland (1861/56) 1805-0310 Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry* Catholic priest/author - Lille, Kingdom of France (1872/66) 1805-0320 Thomas Nickerson* sailor/ author/innkeeper - Harwich, MA USA (1883/77) 1805-0322 Benito de Soto* Galician pirate/captain of the Burla Negra - Pontevedra, Spanish Empire (1830/25) 1805-0331 1805-0402 Hans Christian Andersen* author - Odense, Kingdom of Denmark-Norway (1875/70) 1805-0417 John Hosking* merchant/ politician/the first elected mayor of Sydney/to Australia at age 4 - England (1882/77) 1805-0421 James Martineau* religious philosopher - Norwich, England (1900/94) 1805-0430 1805-0501 1805-0508 Daniel Albert Fechter* theologian/ historian - Basel, Swiss Confederation (1876/70) 1805-0526 Pehr Adolf Kruskopf* Finnish painter/ illustrator - St.Petersburg, Russia (1852/46) 1805-0601 1805-0609 José Trinidad Cabañas* military leader/politician/P - Tegucigalpa (1871/65) 1805-0613 Magnus von Wright* painter/ ornithologist - Haminalahti, Savo, Sweden-Finland (1868/63) 1805-0622 Giuseppe Mazzini* journalist/politician/activist - Genoa, French Empire (1872/66) 1805-0729 Alexis de Tocqueville* diplomat/political scientist/historian - Paris, France (1859/53) 1805-0730 Rudolf Wagner* anatomist/physiologist - Bayreuth, Germany (1864/58) 1805-0801 1805-0802 Philip Ulric Strengberg* businessman/ co-owner of a tobaccy factory - Sievi, Sweden-Finland (1872/67) 1805-0804 William Rowan Hamilton* mathematician/ astronomer/physicist - Dublin, Ireland (1865/60) 1805-0812 Johann Karl Rodbertus* German economist/ socialist - Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania (1875/70) 1805-0821 August Bournonville* ballet master/choreographer - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1879/74) 1805-0823 Anton von Schmerling* lawyer/ statesman - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1893/87) 1805-0907 Samuel Wilberforce* bishop/one of the greatest public speakers of his day - Clapham Common, London, England (1873/67) 1805-0919 John Stevens Cabot Abbott* historian/ pastor/pedagogical writer - Brunswick, ME USA (1877/71) 1805-0920 1805-0927 George Müller* evangelist/director of orphanage - Kroppenstedt, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1898/92) 1805-1001 1805-1007 Antti Matinpoika Käki** father of Margaretha Vaittinen (b Käki)/married to Vappu Eliaantytär Junni - Löytömäki, Käkelä, Viipuri, Sweden-Finland (1872/66) 1805-1010 Johan Lorentz Lagus* bishop - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1881/75) 1805-1011 Gustav Struve* surgeon/ lawyer/revolutionary - Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1870/64) 1805-1020 1805-1031 1805-1101 Alessandro Nini* Italian composer of operas - Fano (1880/75) 1805-1110 1805-1114 Fanny Mendelssohn* German pianist/composer - Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (1847/41) 1805-1119 Ferdinand de Lesseps* diplomat/ developer of the Suez Canal - Versailles, French Empire (1894/89) 1805-1125 Carl Magnus Dahlström* Finnish merchant/businessman/Commercial Counsellor-  Loviisa, Sweden-Finland (1875/69) 1805-1130 Christian Ruben* painter - Trier, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1875/69) 1805-1201 1805-1207 Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin* magician - Blois, France (1871/65) 1805-1212 Frederic Henry Hedge* minister/Transcendentalist - Cambridge, MA USA (1890/84) 1805-1212 Henry Wells* freight agent/businessman (American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company) - Thetford, VT USA (1878/72) 1805-1220 1805-1223 Joseph Smith* founder of the Mormon church - Sharon, VT USA (1844/38) 1805-1231 1805-0 1805-0 1805-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here