1801

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1798 1799 1800 - 1801 - 1802 1803 1804

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1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

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 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 - The British fleet under Admiral Hyde Parker, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson, attack 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)
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 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)
June 5 - Mark of Smyrna, martyred in Chios
September 19 - Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (b. 1745)

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