Timeline September 1803

Events in September 1803 4

• 1741 – 1803 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) Died 5 September 1803, aged 61 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was a French army officer and novelist best known for Les Liaisons dangereuses, an epistolary novel of seduction and intrigue. He later served as a general in Napoleon's army. He died of illness while on campaign in Taranto, Italy.
• 1766 – 1803 Franz Xaver Sussmayr (1766-1803) Died 17 September 1803, aged 37 Franz Xaver Sussmayr was an Austrian composer best remembered for completing Mozart's unfinished Requiem after the composer's death in 1791. He also composed operas and worked as a conductor in Vienna. He died of tuberculosis.
• 1778 – 1803 Robert Emmet (1778-1803) Died 20 September 1803, aged 25 Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist who led a failed uprising against British rule in Dublin in 1803. Captured after the rising collapsed, he was convicted of treason and publicly executed. His speech from the dock made him a lasting symbol of Irish republicanism.
• 1803 Battle of Assaye Wellington defeats Maratha forces in India British East India Company forces under Major-General Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, defeated a much larger Maratha army at Assaye. The victory was a turning point in the Second Anglo-Maratha War and a major step in British dominance over central India. Wellesley later called it his finest military achievement.