1807

Events in 1807 8

• 1807 – 1858 Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858) Died 3 November 1858, aged 51 Taylor Mill was an English philosopher and women's rights advocate whose ideas shaped the work of her husband, John Stuart Mill. She is credited with substantially influencing his writings on liberty and the subjection of women.
• 1807 – 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Died 24 March 1882, aged 75 Longfellow was the most popular American poet of his era, known for works including "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline." His verse was widely read on both sides of the Atlantic and translated into numerous languages. He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1807 – 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Died 7 September 1892, aged 84 John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and prominent abolitionist whose verse, including "Snow-Bound," was widely read in nineteenth-century America. He was among the group known as the Fireside Poets.
• 1807 – 1873 Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) Died 14 December 1873, aged 66 The Swiss-born naturalist and Harvard professor, known for his studies of glaciation and fish fossils, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had built one of the era's foremost natural history collections but also promoted scientifically discredited racial theories that drew criticism even in his lifetime.
• 1807 – 1848 Robert Blum (1807-1848) Died 9 November 1848, aged 40 German radical democrat and member of the Frankfurt Parliament. He went to Vienna during the October Uprising and was arrested when imperial troops took the city. He was executed despite his parliamentary immunity and became a martyr of the 1848 revolution.
• 1807 – 1870 Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) Died 12 October 1870, aged 63 Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, died in Lexington, Virginia, on 12 October 1870. After the war he served as president of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University. He remains one of the most studied and debated military figures in American history.
• 1807 – 1882 Giuseppe Garibaldi Hero of Two Worlds The general and patriot who led the Expedition of the Thousand to unify southern Italy with the north.
• 1807 – 1821 Transfer of the Court to Brazil Napoleonic Invasion The entire Portuguese Royal Court fled to Rio de Janeiro to escape Napoleons invading armies.