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1805

• Napoleon’s French troops defeat Austro-Russian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz
• Hans Christian Andersen is born (April 2)
• William Harrison Ainsworth is born (February 4)
• Friedrich Schiller dies (May 9)
• The British fleet under Horatio Nelson defeats French naval forces at the Battle of Trafalgar (October 21)