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

Contents

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, architect (d. 1875)
June 1 - Brigham Young, American relgious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)
June 14 - Heber C. Kimball, Mormon church leader (d. 1868)
June 30 - Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher
July 29 - George Bradshaw, English publisher
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)

Deaths

February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki, German painter
March 23 - Tsar Paul of Russia
March 25 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
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
September 19 - Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer