Major Events
- Oct 21 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
- Nov 19 Lewis and Clark expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west
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1805 in Music
- Nov 20 Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio", his only opera, premieres at Vienna's Theater an der Wien
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Famous Weddings in 1805
- Jun 3 Lady Caroline Ponsonby (19) marries future Prime Minister William Lamb, Lord Melbourne (26) in London