1803

Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years:	1800 1801 1802 - 1803 - 1804 1805 1806

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World Population: Over 1 billion

1803 (MDCCCIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1803

January 5 - William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat".

January 5: steamboat Charlotte Dundas.

January 30 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
February 21 - Edward Despard and six others are hanged and beheaded for plotting to assassinate king George III and to destroy the Bank of England.
February 24 - The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.
February 25 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (formally the Hauptschluss der außerordentlichen Reichsdeputation, or "Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation") was a resolution by the Reichstag (German Mediatisation)
March 1 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
March 12 - Port Gibson, MS is chartered.

April 30 - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
May - Napoleon I of France beigns making preparations to invade England.
May 18 - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France after France refused to withdraw from Dutch territory.
May 19 - Master Malati, a Coptic Christian leader, is beheaded by Muslim mob in Cairo, Egypt.

July 4 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
July 5 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
July 23 - Robert Emmet's uprising in Ireland begins.
July 26 - The wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon is opened, being the first public railway line of the world.
August 3 – British begin Second Anglo-Maratha War against Sindhia of Gwalior.
September 20 - Irish rebel Robert Emmet is executed.
September 23 - The Battle of Assaye in India – British-led troops defeat Maratha forces.

October 20 - Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.
November 18- The Haitian army led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeated the army of Napoleon at the Battle of Vertières.
November 30 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France had transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).

Aargau, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Thurgau, the Ticino, Vaud become Swiss cantons.
France - the Livre Tournois (Tours Pound) is replaced by the Franc.
William Osgoode, Chief Justice of Lower Canada, rules that slavery is inconsistent with British Law.
Orissa, India is occupied by the British under the British East India Company after the Second Anglo-Maratha War.