This page relates to the year 1803 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Africa

  • February: The Colonie of the Cape is restored by the British with the Batavian République (Traité of Amiens of 1802).
    • Jacob of Mist becomes general police chief of the Colonie of the Cape (fine in 1806). It inaugurates an effective policy of agricultural development based on slavery.
    • Third war kaffir between colonists of South Africa and Bantou.

  • Abd el-Kérim, known as Saboun, after the assassination of his/her father Saleh Derret, becomes sultan of the fine Ouadaï in 1813). It eliminates all the applicants with the throne or the fact of plugging in order not to be victim of a conspiracy. It constitutes a powerful army and combat for the independence of Ouadaï. In 1812, it annexes the Baguirmi with the assistance of the Bornou.

    • Abd el-Kérim develops the trade by ensuring the safety of the tracks connecting its country to the the Nile and the Cyrénaïque. The main resource of Ouadaï is the trade of the slaves captured among the tribes animists of the south.

  • Abolition of the trade slave trader by the Denmark.

Americas

North America

  • February 19th: The Ohio becomes the seventeenth state of the American Union. It is the first State to be obtained a law prohibiting slavery officially.
  • April 30th: treaty of transfer of Louisiana (2 million km ²) of the France to the the United States (directed by Thomas Jefferson), for 15 million dollars (80 franc million on the whole). The second convention is signed the December 21st.
    • After the purchase of Louisiana, Jefferson proposes with the Congress to encourage the Indians to be established on pieces as stockbreeder and farmer and to give up hunting. He recommends to encourage them to trade with the White and to contract debts which they would refund by the sale of their pieces.
  • November 18th: French defeat with the Battle of Vertières, sealing the fate of the colony of Santo Domingo. Decimated by the yellow fever, the French garrisons go to the black general Jean-Jacques Dessalines. At the end of December, the last French soldiers leave the island.

Asia

India

Mongolia

  • Of the Chinese merchants of the towns of Ourga and Ouliastaï is expelled on order of the emperor Mandchou. Passing in addition to the restrictive measures, they exceeded the authorized duration of stay and establishes deposits and shops. This illegal activity is often supported by Mongolian lords, even Manchu, injured by the restrictive measures.

Oceania & the Pacific

The Middle East & Arab World

  • October 4th: The emir of the Nedjd 'Abd Al 'Aziz ibn Sa' ud is assassinated by a Shiite being made pass for a convert to the Wahhabisme, which wanted to avenge plundering for Karbala in 1802. One of wire of the emir, Sa' ud, succeeds to him.
  • the wahhabites remove the pilgrimage with Mecque.
  • Djezzar Pasha (“the butcher”), Bosnian Mameluke of origin, appointed governor by the Door, tries to create a State joining together the south of the Syria to the Palestine. It puts an end to the ambitions separatists of the governor of Acre, the sheik el-Dahir.
  • the British troops evacuate the Egypt, pursuant to the agreement of Istanbul of 1799.
  • the Caucasus: conquest of the Mingrélie by the Russia.

Europe

  • January 24th: Reorganization of teaching in Russia.
  • February 20th of the Calendar Julien , Russia: Ukase on the free farmers; the Masters who émancipent their serfs must give them a ground to repurchase (little effect: 47  000 freed under the reign from Alexandre Ier from Russia).
  • February 25th, Ratisbon: Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . A recès of the Diet of Empire, influenced by the French diplomacy, removes a hundred and twelve German States authoritatively, mainly of the ecclesiastical, laic principalities and the towns of Empire. It simplifies the chart of the Germany to the profit of the States customers of France (Wurtemberg, Bavaria, Prussia). Nomination of three new voters, sovereigns of Bade, Wurtemberg and Hesse-Cassel. To compensate the princes possessionés on left bank for the the Rhine, the diet proceeds to secularizations and distributes compensations: the Habsbourg receive évêchés of Thirty and Bressanone, in the south of the the Tyrol.

France

See also: 1803 in France

  • March 28th: Introduction of the frankly Germinal .

Switzerland

    • the cantons of Argovie and the Grisons unite with the Swiss Confédération

Arts & cultures

See also: 1803 in music, 1803 in literature, 1803 with the theater

Sciences and technology

See also: 1803 in science

Economy & Company

  • Translation in French of the Test on the principle of population , Malthus.
  • Treated political economy , of Jean-Baptiste Say.

  • progress of industrialization to the the United Kingdom forces a marketing policy to run out an unceasingly increasing production on a worldwide scale. Half of the textile production and the metallurgical production is exported. The United Kingdom cannot tolerate the expansion policy of the France which is likely to reduce its markets.

  • the United Kingdom: 7000 schools, 90  000 Masters, 850  000 pupils belong to mobility Méthodiste. This educational action is supplemented in the field of religious teaching by the Sundays schools .

Births in 1803

Death in 1803

See too

Beats-smg: 1803 Be-X-old: 1803 Map-bms: 1803 Simple: 1803 Zh-yue: 1803 年

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