1801
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1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- 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 first (and largest) asteroid 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 2 – First Battle of Copenhagen – British fleet under admiral Hyde Parker, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson with them, attacks Copenhagen. Armed Neutrality of the North dissolved.
- May – The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
- June 27 – Cairo falls to British troops.
- July 6 – Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet beats the British fleet.
- July 18 – Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the pope.
- November 16 – First edition of New York Evening Post
- Aachen is officially annexed by France.
- A census in London 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)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Births
- February 1 – Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)
- May 11 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
- June 1 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)
- June 14 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
- June 30 – Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher (d. 1850)
- 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)
Deaths
- February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, German painter (b. 1726)
- 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
- June 4 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1750)
- September 19 – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (b. 1745)
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