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

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 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 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 – 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
• 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, founder of the Hudson River School of Art (d. 1848)
• May 11 - Henri Labrouste, architect (d. 1875)
• June 30 - Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher
• October 12 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1873)
• November 3 - 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