1801





Events

   * January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed
     under the 1801 Act of Union
   * January 1 - The first (and largest) asteroid Ceres is discovered by
     Giuseppe Piazzi
   * 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 Lunˇville 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 24 - The Russian tsar Paul I is murdered
   * April 2 - First Battle of 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.
   * July 6 - Battle of Algeciras: The French fleet beats the British fleet.
   * July 18 - Napoleon signs Concordat with pope
   * August 1 / 2 - A French fleet is defeated by British ships under
     Horatio Nelson in the Battle of the Nile
   * 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

Births

   * May 11 - Henri Labrouste, architect (+ 1875)
   * November 1 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer
   * Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher

Deaths

   * February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki, German painter
   * March 23 - Tsar Paul of Russia
   * March 25 - Novalis, German poet
   * March 28 - Ralph Abercromby, British general
   * June 4 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House
     of Representatives