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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).