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[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|thumb|200px|The [[Union Flag]], flag of the newly formed [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]].]]
Year '''1801 ([[Roman numerals|MDCCCI]])''' was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (see link for calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Tuesday]]
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"Calendar in year 1801 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
[http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1801&country=20 Julian-1801]
(Russia used the Julian calendar until [[1919]]).
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of the 12-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1801==
=== January - March ===
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* [[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 [[dwarf planet]] [[Ceres (dwarf planet)|Ceres]].
* [[January 21]] - [[John Marshall]] is appointed [[Chief Justice of the United States]].
* [[February 4]] - [[William Pitt the Younger]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[February 16]] - The [[Treaty of Lunéville]] ends the war ([[Second Coalition]]) between [[France]] and [[Austria]].
* [[February 19]] - An [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral]] tie between [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Aaron Burr]] is resolved when Jefferson is elected [[President of the United States]] and Burr [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] by the [[United States House of Representatives]].
* [[February 27]] - [[Washington, DC]] is placed under the jurisdiction of the [[Congress of the United States|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 (1801)|Battle of Abukir]]: a [[United Kingdom|British]] army under [[Ralph Abercromby]] defeats the [[France|French]] troops.
* [[March 23]] - The [[Russia]]n [[Tsar]] [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]] is murdered. He is succeeded by his son [[Alexander I of Russia]].
=== April - June ===
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* [[April 2]] - First [[Battle of Copenhagen]] - The [[United Kingdom|British]] fleet under [[Admiral]] [[Sir Hyde Parker]], along with [[Admiral]] [[Horatio Nelson]], attack [[Copenhagen]]. [[Armed Neutrality of the North]] dissolved.
* [[May 10]] - The pascha of [[Tripoli]] declares war on [[United States]] by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
* [[June 7]] - [[Portugal]] and [[Spain]] sign the Treaty of [[Badajoz]]. Portugal loses the city of [[Olivenza]]
* [[June 27]] - [[Cairo]] falls to [[United Kingdom|British]] troops.
=== July - September ===
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* [[July 6]] - [[Battle of Algeciras]]: The [[France|French]] fleet beats the [[United Kingdom|British]] fleet.
* [[July 18]] - [[Napoleon]] signs the [[Concordat of 1801]] with the [[Pope]].
=== October - December ===
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* [[October 17]] - [[Coup d'état]] in the [[Netherlands]] ([[Batavian Republic]]).
* [[November 16]] - First edition of ''[[New York Evening Post]]''.
===Undated===
* The [[Indian March of Paul]] (January-March)
* [[Aachen]] is officially annexed by [[France]].
* The first [[census]] is held in Great Britain. [[London]] is revealed to have 860,035 residents.
* First [[census]] in [[France]].
* [[Joseph Marie Jacquard|Joseph-Marie Jacquard]] developed a [[loom]] where the pattern being woven was controlled by [[punch card]]s.
* [[ultraviolet|Ultraviolet radiation]] is discovered by [[Johann Wilhelm Ritter]].
*1.5 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in [[England]] and [[Wales]]. Cities of 20,000 or more account for 17% of the total English population.
===Ongoing events===
* [[French Revolutionary Wars]] ([[1792]]-[[1802]])-[[Second Coalition]]/Egyptian Campaign
* [[Napoleonic Wars]] ([[1799]]-[[1815]]).
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars}}
===January - June===
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* [[January 3]] - [[Gijsbert Haan]], Dutch-American religious leader (d. [[1874]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Thomas Cole]], American artist (d. [[1848]])
* towards [[February 13]] - [[János Kardos]] [[Hungarian Slovenes]] evangelic priest, teacher and writer (d. [[1875]])
* [[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 - December=== <!-- BIRTHS -->
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* [[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]])
*''date unknown''
**[[Dai Xi]], Chinese painter (d. [[1860]])
**[[Franciszek Ksawery Godebski]], Polish writer
: ''See also [[:Category: 1801 births]].''
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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*[[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]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Benedict Arnold]], American Revolution hero and traitor (b. [[1741]])
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*[[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. [[1536]])
*[[November 5]] - [[Motoori Norinaga]], Japanese philologist and scholar (b. [[1730]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1725]])
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: ''See also [[:Category: 1801 deaths]].''
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