1804 (MDCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
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Births
change- July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, etc.)
- November 23 - Franklin Pierce, fourteenth President of the United States (d. 1869)
Deaths
change- February 12 – Immanuel Kant
- July 12 – Alexander Hamilton, 49 (b. 1755)