1801
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1801 (MDCCCI ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar , the 1801st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 801st year of the 2nd millennium , the 1st year of the 19th century , and the 2nd year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1801, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 1: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is formed.
January 1
January 3 – Toussaint Louverture triumphantly enters Santo Domingo , the capital of the former Spanish colony of Santo Domingo , which has become a colony of Napoleonic France .
January 31 – 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 9 – The Treaty of Lunéville ends the War of the Second Coalition between France and Austria. Under the terms of the treaty, all German territories left of the Rhine are officially annexed by France while Austria also has to recognize the Batavian, Helvetian, Cisalpine and Ligurian Republic.
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, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Congress .
March 4 – Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the third President of the United States.
March 10 – The first census is held in Great Britain. The population of England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million,[1] with London revealed to have 860,035 residents. 1.5 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, accounting for 17% of the total English population.
March 14 – Henry Addington becomes First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer , effectively Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
March 21 – Battle of Alexandria in Egypt: British troops defeat the French, but the British commander, Sir Ralph Abercromby , dies later of a wound received in the action.
March 23 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is murdered; he is succeeded by his son Alexander I .
April–June
July–September
October–December
October 17 – A coup d'état is staged in the Batavian Republic .
November 16 – The first edition of the New-York Evening Post is printed.
December 15 – Hadži Mustafa Pasha , Ottoman commander and politician, is assassinated in Belgrade , Sanjak of Smederevo , by Kučuk-Alija .
December 19 – South Carolina College, a precursor to The University of South Carolina , is established in Columbia, South Carolina .
December 24 – Cornish engineers Richard Trevithick and Andrew Vivian demonstrate "Puffing Devil", their steam-powered road locomotive, in Camborne . The trial is successful but Trevithick realises the limitations of steam power in a road-running vehicle and turns his attention to rail, introducing the world's first steam railway locomotive in 1804.[5]
Date unknown
The Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon .
Births
January–June
Jane Welsh Carlyle
John Henry Newman
William H. Seward
January 3 – Gijsbert Haan , Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
January 10 – Thierry Hermès , German-born French businessman, founder of Hermès (d. 1878)
January 11 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná , Brazilian politician (d. 1856)
January 14 – Jane Welsh Carlyle , Scottish writer, wife of Thomas Carlyle (d. 1866 )[7]
February 1
February 21 – John Henry Newman , English Catholic Cardinal (d. 1890)
May 5 – Pío Pico , last Governor of Alta California (d. 1894)
May 11 – Henri Labrouste , French architect (d. 1875)
May 16 – William H. Seward , 24th United States Secretary of State (d. 1872)
May 17 – Lovisa Åhrberg , first woman doctor, surgeon in Sweden (d. 1881)
June 1 – Brigham Young , American Mormon leader, colonizer (d. 1877)
June 5 – William Scamp , English architect and engineer (d. 1872)[8]
June 4 – James Pennethorne , English architect (d. 1871)
June 14 – Heber C. Kimball , American religious leader (d. 1868)
June 16 – Julius Plücker , German mathematician, physicist (d. 1868)
June 30 – Frédéric Bastiat , French philosopher (d. 1850)
July–December
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria
Hortense Allart
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
July 5 – David Farragut , American admiral (d. 1870 )
July 14 – Johannes Peter Müller , German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (d. 1858 )
July 27 – George Biddell Airy , English mathematician, astronomer (d. 1892 )
September 1 – Hortense Allart , French writer (d. 1879 )[9]
September 3 – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer , German palaeontologist (d. 1869 )
October 12
October 23 – Albert Lortzing , German composer (d. 1851 )
November 3
November 10 – Vladimir Dal , Russian lexicographer (d. 1872 )
November 13 – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria , queen of Prussia (d. 1873 )
December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German writer (d. 1836 )[11]
December 14 – Joseph Lane , American politician and general, 1st Governor of Oregon (d. 1881)
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
Paul I of Russia
January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater , Swiss physiognomist (b. 1741 )
January 11 – Domenico Cimarosa , Italian composer (b. 1749 )
February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki , Polish painter (b. 1726 )
February 17 – Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (b. 1716 )
March 14 – Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer , American socialite, Angelica Schuyler Church 's sister (b. 1758 )
March 19 – Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquis of Osorno , Spanish viceroy of Peru and Governor of the Captaincy General of Chile , father of Bernardo O'Higgins , (b. c. 1720)
March 21 – Andrea Luchesi , Italian composer (b. 1741)
March 23 – Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1754 )
March 25 – Novalis , German poet (b. 1772 )[12]
March 28 – Ralph Abercromby , British general (b. 1734)
April 2 – Thomas Dadford, Jr. , British engineer (b. ca. 1761)
April 7 – Noël François de Wailly , French lexicographer (b. 1724)
May 3 – Cyrus Trapaud , British Army general (b. 1715)
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, then traitor (b. 1741)
July–December
Ulrica Arfvidsson
Benedict Arnold
Date unknown
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^ Helynne Hollstein Hansen, Hortense Allart : the woman and the novelist , Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1998. Page xix
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