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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  - 1800s -  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1798 1799 1800 - 1801 - 1802 1803 1804

1801 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Sports - Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia - Canada - France - Germany - Ireland - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - UK - USA

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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 1 Events of 1801 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 1.6 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 4 Notes

Events of 1801

January - March

• January 1 - The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is 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 21 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.
• February 4 - William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• February 16 - The Treaty of Lunéville ends the war (Second Coalition) between France and Austria.
• February 19 - 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 Sir Hyde Parker, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson, attack Copenhagen; the Armed Neutrality of the North is dissolved.
• May 10 - The pascha of Tripoli declares war on the 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 - A coup d'état is staged in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic).
• November 16 - The first edition of New York Evening Post is printed.

Undated

• Aachen is officially annexed by France.
• The first census is held in Great Britain. London is revealed to have 860,035 residents.
• The first census is held in France.
• Joseph-Marie Jacquard develops a loom where the pattern being woven is controlled by punch cards.
• Ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.
• 1.5 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales. Cities of 20,000 or more account for 17% of the total English population.

Ongoing events

• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)
• The Indian March of Paul (January-March)

Births

1801 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1801 MDCCCI
Ab urbe condita	2554
Armenian calendar	1250 ԹՎ ՌՄԾ
Bahá'í calendar	-43 – -42
Berber calendar	2751
Buddhist calendar	2345
Burmese calendar	1163
Byzantine calendar	7309 – 7310
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月十七日 (4437/4497-11-17) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿六日 (4438/4498-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1517 – 1518
Ethiopian calendar	1793 – 1794
Hebrew calendar	5561 – 5562
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1856 – 1857
- Shaka Samvat	1723 – 1724
- Kali Yuga	4902 – 4903
Holocene calendar	11801
Iranian calendar	1179 – 1180
Islamic calendar	1215 – 1216
Japanese calendar	Kansei 13 (寛政13年)
Korean calendar	4134
Thai solar calendar	2344
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January - June

• January 3 - Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
• February 1 - Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)
• February 13 - János Kardos, Hungarian Slovenes evangelical 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 Category: 1801 births.

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)
• June 14 - Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor (b. 1741)

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. 1536)
• November 5 - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (b. 1730)
• November 24 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)

See also Category: 1801 deaths.

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