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1801

Years: 1798 1799 1800 - 1801 - 1802 1803 1804

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1801 in art 1801 in literature 1801 in music 1801 in science 1801 in sports List of state leaders in 1801 List of religious leaders in 1801

Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom
• 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 United States 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 24 - The Russian tsar Paul I is murdered
• April 2 - First Battle of Copenhagen – British fleet under admiral Hyde Parker – 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 the 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.
• August 1 / 2 - A French fleet is defeated by British ships under Horatio Nelson in the Battle of the Nile
• November 16 - First edition of New York Evening Post

• Census in London - 860.035 residents
• 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

• May 11 - Henri Labrouste, architect (+ 1875)
• June 30 - Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher
• October 12 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (+ 1873)
• November 1 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer
• November 10 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)

Deaths

• February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki, German painter
• March 23 - Tsar Paul of Russia
• March 25 - Novalis, German poet
• March 28 - Ralph Abercromby, British general
• April 2 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer
• June 4 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives

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