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1801 (MDCCCI) was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).

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 .

defeats the French troops.

March 23 - The Russia n 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.

October 17 - Coup d'état in the Netherlands ( Batavian Republic ).

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 Card s.

The Ultraviolet Radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter

Ongoing events

French Revolutionary Wars ( 1792 - 1802 )- Second Coalition /Egyptian Campaign

Zach Fontana The Great ( 1799 - 1815 )- Second Coalition /Egyptian Campaign

BIRTHS

January 3 - Gijsbert Haan , Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874 )

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 4 - James Pennethorne , English architect (d. 1871 )

June 14 - Heber C. Kimball , American religious leader (d. 1868 )

June 30 - Frederic Bastiat , French philosopher (d. 1850 )

July 5 - David Farragut , American naval commander (d. 1870 )

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 )

Dai Xi , Chinese painter (d. 1860 )

Franciszek Ksawery Godebski , Polish writer

DEATHS

February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki , Polish painter (b. 1726 )

March 21 - Andrea Luchesi , Italian composer (b. 1741 )

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

April 7 - Noël François De Wailly , French lexicographer (b. 1724 )

May 17 - William Heberden , English physician (b. 1710 )

June 4 - Frederick Muhlenberg , first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1750 )

September 19 - Johann Gottfried Koehler , German astronomer (b. 1745 )

October 3 - Philippe Henri, Marquis De Ségur , Marshal of France (b. 1724 )

November 4 - William Shippen , American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1712 )

5 November - Motoori Norinaga , Japanese philologist and scholar (b. 1730 )

November 24 - Franz Moritz Graf Von Lacy , Austrian field marshal (b. 1725 )