1801

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