1801



Year '1801 (MDCCCI)' was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday
[1]
of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents
Events of 1801
January - March
April - June
July - September
October - December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
January - June
July - December
Deaths
January - June
July - December
Notes

Events of 1801


January - March


January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

January 1 - Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.

January 20 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.

February 3 - William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

February 9 - The Treaty of Lunéville ends the war (Second Coalition) between France and Austria.

February 17 - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

February 27 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.

March 4 - Thomas Jefferson succeeds John Adams as the President of the United States of America.

March 21 - Second Battle of Abukir: a British army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops.

March 23 - The Russian Tsar Paul I is murdered. He is succeeded by his son Alexander I of Russia.
April - June


April 2 - First Battle of Copenhagen - The British fleet under Admiral Hyde Parker, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson, attack Copenhagen. Armed Neutrality of the North dissolved.

May 10 - The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.

June 7 - Portugal and Spain sign the Treaty of Badajoz. Portugal loses the city of Olivenza

June 27 - Cairo falls to British troops.
July - September


July 6 - Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet beats the British fleet.

July 18 - Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the Pope.
October - December


October 17 - Coup d'état in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic).

November 16 - First edition of New York Evening Post.
Undated


★ The Indian March of Paul (January-March)

Aachen is officially annexed by France.

★ The first census is held in Great Britain. London is revealed it to have 860,035 residents.

★ First census in France.

Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed a loom where the pattern being woven was controlled by punch cards.

★ The ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.
Ongoing events


French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).

Births


January - June


January 3 - Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)

February 1 - Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)

★ towards February 13 - János Kardos Hungarian Slovenes evangelic priest, teacher and writer (d. 1875)

February 21 - John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1890)

May 11 - Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)

June 1 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)

June 4 - James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)

June 14 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)

June 30 - Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher (d. 1850)
July - December


July 5 - David Farragut, American naval commander (d.1870)

July 29 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)

October 12 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1873)

November 3 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)

November 3 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)

November 10 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)

December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)

★ ''date unknown''


Dai Xi, Chinese painter (d. 1860)


Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, Polish writer
: ''See also .''

Deaths


January - June


February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)

March 21 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)

March 23 - Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)

March 25 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)

March 28 - Ralph Abercromby, British general (b. 1734)

April 2 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British engineer

April 7 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)

May 17 - William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)

June 4 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1750)
July - December


September 19 - Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (b. 1745)

October 3 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)

November 4 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1712)

5 November - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (b. 1730)

November 24 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)

June 14 - Benedict Arnold,American Revolution traitor (b. 1741)
: ''See also .''

Notes


1.
"Calendar in year 1801 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
Julian-1801
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).





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