1801

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1798 1799 1800 - 1801 - 1802 1803 1804\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom\n* January 1 - Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the first (and largest) asteroid Ceres\n* January 20 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.\n* February 3 - William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom\n* February 9 - The Treaty of Lunéville ends the war (Second Coalition) between France and Austria\n* 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.\n* February 27 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Congress.\n* March 4 - Thomas Jefferson succeeds John Adams as the President of the United States of America\n* March 21 - Second Battle of Abukir: a British army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops\n* March 24 - The Russian tsar Paul I is murdered\n* 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.\n* May - The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.\n* June 27 - Cairo falls to the British troops\n* July 6 - Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet beats the British fleet.\n* July 18 - Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the pope.\n* August 1 / 2 - A French fleet is defeated by British ships under Horatio Nelson in the Battle of the Nile\n* November 16 - First edition of New York Evening Post

• Census in London - 860.035 residents\n*Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed a loom where the pattern being woven was controlled by punch cards.\n*The ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter

Ongoing events

\n* French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign\n* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

Births

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

Deaths

\n* February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki, German painter\n* March 23 - Tsar Paul of Russia\n* March 25 - Novalis, German poet\n* March 28 - Ralph Abercromby, British general\n* April 2 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer\n* June 4 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nzh-cn:1801年