1803 William Godwin Jr. is born. 1804 May - Napoleon is made emperor. December - Spain declares war on England. William and Mary Godwin enter the publishing business with their Juvenile Library. William Godwin begins writing books for children under the name Edward Baldwin.
Godwin family moves into publishing company.
June 8 - Thomas Paine dies in New York City. Percy expelled from Oxford for refusing to answer questions about the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism . August 25 - Percy Shelley elopes with Harriet Westbrook to Scotland, taking out a marriage license in Edinburgh on August 28. January 4 - Percy Shelley introduces himself to William Godwin in a letter. February 24 - Percy Shelley's An Address to the Irish People is published in Dublin, which pamphlet he hands to men in taverns, people in the street, or tosses out of his window at pedestrians.