Timeline October 1803

Events in October 1803 2

• 1722 – 1803 Samuel Adams (1722-1803) Died 2 October 1803, aged 81 Samuel Adams was an American statesman and leader of the Sons of Liberty who helped organize resistance to British rule before the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as governor of Massachusetts. He died in Boston.
• 1803 John Dalton outlines atomic theory First table of relative atomic weights presented Chemist John Dalton presented a table of relative atomic weights to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, part of the modern atomic theory he was developing. He proposed that each element consists of identical atoms of a characteristic weight, and that compounds form in fixed ratios of these atoms. His theory became a foundation of modern chemistry.