1801
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th centuryDecades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years: 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 - 1801 - 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806
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Events
- January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the 1801 Act of Union, bringing about the United Kingdom
- 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 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 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 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
- 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
Years in Topic
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
