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'''1800 (MDCCC)''' was an
Leap year#Rules for determining when to have a leap year exceptional common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
*
World population 1 billion.
*
February - Foundation of the
Banque de France Bank of France
*
March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected
pope as
Pius VII.
*
March 21 -
Pope Pius VII Pius VII is ordained.
*
April 24 - U.S.
Library of Congress founded.
*
May 5 -
Great Britain passes the
Act of Union 1800 Act of Union to join Great Britain and
Ireland into the
United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January
1801. The act is signed by King
George III of the United Kingdom George III in August.
*
May 15 -
Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the
Alps and invades
Italy.
*
June 14 -
Battle of Marengo (1800) Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the
Austrian troops near
Marengo, Italy.
*
June 2 - First
smallpox vaccination in
North America, at
Trinity, Newfoundland.
*
June 27 - Pascha
Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli Jussuf Karamanli of
Tripoli declares war on
Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
*
September 5 - The island of
Malta, that was occupied by the French, is conquered by British troops.
*
November 1 - U.S. President
John Adams becomes the first
President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the
White House).
*
November 17 - The
United States Congress U.S. Congress holds its first
Washington, D.C. session.
*
December 3 -
Battle of Hohenlinden (1800) Battle of Hohenlinden, the French army defeats the Austrian troops.
*
December 24 - An assault on
Napoleon I of France Napoleon Bonaparte fails in
Paris.
*
December 24 -
Peter Coudrin Pierre Coudrin and
Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie found the
Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in
Paris.
*Invention of the
voltaic pile by
Alessandro Volta: the first chemical
Battery (electricity) battery
*The
infrared infrared radiation is discovered by
William Herschel Wilhelm Herschel.
* The
Althing of
Iceland, the world's oldest
parliament, is abolished.
Ongoing events
*
French Revolutionary Wars (
1792-
1802)-
Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
*
Napoleonic Wars (
1799-
1815)-
Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Birth
January-April
*
January 1 -
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (died
1857)
*
January 7 -
Millard Fillmore, 13th
President of the United States (died
1874)
*
January 12 -
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, English diplomat and statesman (died
1870)
*
January 14 -
Ludwig von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (died
1877)
*
January 17 -
Caleb Cushing, American statesman and diplomat (died
1879)
*
January 24 -
Edwin Chadwick, English social reformer (died
1890)
*
January 26 -
Elizabeth Ann Whitney,
Mormon leader (died
1882)
*
February 1 -
Brian Houghton Hodgson, English civil servant (died
1894)
*
February 6 -
Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (died
1857)
*
February 9 -
Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (died
1844)
*
February 9 -
Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter (died
1876)
*
February 11 -
William Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (died
1877)
*
February 12 -
John Edward Gray, British zoologist (died
1875)
*
February 23 -
William Jardine (naturalist) William Jardine, Scottish naturalist (died
1874)
*
February 26 -
Lucius Lyon, U.S. statesman (died
1851)
*
March 3 -
Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (died
1862)
*
March 10 -
Victor Aimé Huber, German social reformer (died
1869)
*
March 12 -
Louis Prosper Gachard, Belgian man of letters (died
1885)
*
March 16 -
Emperor Ninko of Japan (died
1846)
*
March 17 -
Rudolf Ewald Stier, German Protestant churchman and mystic (died
1862)
*
March 20 -
Gottfried Bernhardy, German philologist and literary historian (died
1875)
*
March 25 -
Alexis Paulin Paris, French scholar and author (died
1881)
*
March 25 -
Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and mineralogist (died
1889)
*
March 28 -
Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist (died
1832)
*
April 4 -
Tokugawa Nariaki, Japanese daimyo of Mito (died
1860)
*
April 15 -
James Clark Ross, British naval officer and explorer (died
1862)
*
April 16 -
Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died
1879)
*
April 16 -
George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (died
1888)
*
April 29 -
Hiram Cronk, last surviving veteran of the
War of 1812 (died
1905)
May-August
*
May 5 -
Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (died
1864)
*
May 8 -
Armand Carrel, French writer (died
1836)
*
May 9 -
John Brown (abolitionist) John Brown, American abolitionist (died
1859)
*
May 9 -
Samuel Carter Hall, English journalist (died
1889)
*
June 1 -
Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (died
1869)
*
June 17 -
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer (died
1867)
*
June 23 -
Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (died
1846)
*
July 14 -
Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist (died
1884)
*
July 19 -
Juan José Flores, first president of Ecuador (died
1864)
*
July 22 -
Jakob Lorber, German Christian mystic (died
1864)
*
July 22 -
Robert McCormick (explorer) Robert McCormick, British Royal Navy surgeon (died
1890)
*
July 31 -
Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died
1882)
*
August 4 -
Hercules L. Dousman, American trader and financier (died
1868)
*
August 10 -
Otto August Rosenberger, German astronomer (died
1890)
*
August 12 -
Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist (died
1864)
*
August 19 -
Buckner Stith Morris, mayor of Chicago (died
1879)
*
August 19 -
James Lenox, American bibliophile and philanthropist (died
1880)
*
August 22 -
Edward Barron Chandler, American politician (died
1880)
*
August 22 -
William S. Harney, U.S. general (died
1889)
*
August 22 -
Edward Bouverie Pusey, English churchman (died
1882)
*
August 25 -
Karl Hase, German Protestant theologian and Church historian (died
1890)
September-December
*
September 6 -
Catharine Beecher, American educator (died
1878)
*
September 11 -
Daniel S. Dickinson, Confederate admiral (died
1866)
*
September 13 -
Franklin Buchanan, officer in the U.S. Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War (died
1874)
*
September 13 -
David Stewart (Maryland) David Stewart, American politician (died
1858)
*
September 15 -
Paul Friedrich, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died
1842)
*
September 19 -
William McKean, admiral in the United States Navy (died
1865)
*
September 20 -
Benjamin Franklin White, American singing master (died
1879)
*
September 22 -
George Bentham, English botanist (died
1884)
*
September 22 -
Thomas Holloway, English pharmacist and philanthropist (died
1883)
*
September 23 -
William Holmes McGuffey, American professor who created the McGuffey Readers (died
1873)
*
September 30 -
Decimus Burton, prolific English architect and garden designer (died
1881)
*
October 1 -
Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish Lutheran pastor of Sami ancestry (died
1861)
*
October 2 -
Nat Turner, American slave rebel (died
1831)
*
October 3 -
George Bancroft, American historian and statesman (died
1891)
*
October 8 -
Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (died
1887)
*
October 18 -
Henry Taylor, English dramatist (died
1886)
*
October 22 -
Christian Lassen, German orientalist (died
1876)
*
October 23 -
Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (died
1885)
*
October 25 -
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, British poet (died
1859)
*
October 25 -
Jacques Paul Migne, French priest and theologian (died
1875)
*
October 26 -
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (died
1891)
*
October 27 -
Benjamin Wade, U.S. lawyer and politician (died
1878)
*
November 4 -
Edwin Waller, Americian entrepreneur (died
1881)
*
November 4 -
George Long, English classical scholar (died
1879)
*
November 17 -
Achille Fould, French financier and politician (died
1867)
*
November 18 -
John Nelson Darby, British evangelist (died
1882)
*
November 22 -
Linn Boyd, U.S. politician (died
1859)
*
November 27 -
Frances Anne Kemble, British actress and author (died
1893)
*
December 1 -
Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet (died
1855)
*
December 3 -
France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (died
1849)
*
December 4 -
Emil Aarestrup, Danish erotic poet (died
1856)
*
December 4 -
William Fenwick Williams, British military (died
1883)
*
December 5 -
Thomas Ford (politician) Thomas Ford, governor of Illinois (died
1850)
*
December 7 -
Giuseppe Gené, Italian naturalist and author (died
1847)
*
December 25 -
John Phillips (geologist) John Phillips, English geologist (died
1874)
*
December 27 -
John Goss, English organist and composer (died
1880)
*
December 29 -
Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate (died
1860)
Unknown day
*
Aga Khan I, Shah of Persia (died
1881)
*
Jewgenij Abramovich Baratynski, Russian poet (died
1844)
*
Ugo Bassi, Italian patriot (died
1849)
*
James Black, creator of the original Bowie knife (died
1870)
*
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) Elias Boudinot, Cherokee who started and edited the tribe's first newspaper (died
1839)
*
John McLeod Campbell, Scottish churchman (died
1872)
*
Robert L. Caruthers, Confederate governor of Tennessee (died
1882)
*
MartÃn Perfecto de Cos, Mexican general (died
1854)
*
Catherine Crowe, British writer (died
1876)
*
John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, English statesman (died
1875)
*
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died
1827)
*
Charles Auguste Désiré Filon, French historian (died
1875)
*
James Glynn, United States Navy officer (died
1871)
*
Edwin Guest, English antiquary (died
1880)
*
James Henry Hackett, United States actor (died
1871)
*
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, English statesman (died
1885)
*
Anna Maria Hall, Irish writer (died
1889)
*
George Hudson, English railway financier (died
1871)
*
Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (died
1869)
*
Richard Lawrence, attempted assassin of
Andrew Jackson (died
1861)
*
Thomas Henry Lister, English novelist (died
1842)
*
Ramón MarÃa Narváez, Spanish soldier and statesman (died
1868)
*
William Nicholson (naval officer) William Nicholson, officer in the United States Navy (died
1872)
*
Johann Gerhard Oncken, German Baptist preacher (died
1884)
*
Mustafa Resid Pasha, Turkish statesman and diplomat
*
William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died
1879)
*
Gustaw Potworowski, Polish activist (died
1860)
*
William Price (doctor) William Price, British physician and eccentric (died
1893)
*
John Baptist Purcell, U.S. (Irish-born) archbishop (died
1883)
*
Ippolito Rosellini, Italian Egyptologist (died
1843)
*
Roman Sanguszko, Polish noble (died
1881)
*
William Simson, Scottish portrait (died
1847)
*
Henrietta Constance Smithson, Irish actress (died
1854)
*
Pierre St. Amant, leading French chess master (died
1872)
*
Nicholas P. Trist, secretary to
Andrew Jackson (died
1874)
*
A.W. Volkmann, German physiologist (died
1877)
*
Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died
1873)
*
Jacob Westervelt, American shipbuilder and mayor of New York (died
1856)
*
Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died
1874)
Death
January-June
*
January 1 -
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (born
1716)
*
January 6 -
William Jones (ecclesiastic) William Jones, English divine (born
1726)
*
January 9 -
Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (born
1762)
*
January 13 -
Dempsey Burges, Republican U.S. Congressman (born
1751)
*
January 20 -
Thomas Mifflin, fifth
President of the United States in Congress assembled under the
Articles of Confederation (born
1744)
*
January 22 -
George Steevens, English Shakespearean commentator (born
1736)
*
January 23 -
Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (born
1749)
*
February 2 -
James C. Jarvis, United States Navy officer (born
1787)
*
February 23 -
Joseph Warton, English academic and literary critic (born
1722)
*
March 1 -
John Hazelwood, officer in the Continental Navy (born
1726)
*
March 14 -
Daines Barrington, English naturalist (born
1727)
*
March 21 -
William Blount, U.S. statesman (born
1749)
*
March 29 -
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (born
1714)
*
April 25 -
Ezekiel Cornell, Continental Congressman from Rhode Island (born
1732)
*
April 25 -
William Cowper, English poet (born
1731)
*
May 4 -
Armand, duc d'Aiguillon (born
1750)
*
May 7 -
Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (born
1728)
*
May 18 -
Alexander Suvorov, Count of Rymnik (born
1729)
*
June 14 -
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux, French military leader (killed in battle) (born
1768)
*June 14 -
Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (assassinated) (born
1753)
*
June 20 -
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (born
1719)
*
June 30 -
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, British politician (born
1732)
July-December
*
July 14 -
Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (born
1750)
*
July 18 -
John Rutledge, governor of South Carolina (born
1739)
*
August 31 -
John Blair, American politician (born
1732)
*
September 26 -
William Billings, American choral composer (born
1746)
*
September 27 -
William Gibbons, American lawyer and revolutionary (born
1726)
*
September 29 -
Michael Denis, Austrian poet (born
1729)
*
October 16 -
Benjamin Huntington, American lawyer and politician (born
1736)
*
October 28 -
Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts (born
1727)
*
November 5 -
Jesse Ramsden, English astronomical instrument maker (born
1735)
* December 7 -
Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (born
1716)
*
December 17 -
William Peery, American farmer and lawyer (born
1743)
*
December 27 -
Hugh Blair, Scottish Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born
1718)
Unknown day
*
Jean-Baptiste Audebert, French artist and naturalist
*
Angelo Maria Bandini, Italian author (born
1726)
*
Samuel Barrington, British admiral (born
1729)
*
François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, French general (born
1739)
*
Thomas Conway, Irish soldier (born
1734)
*
Henry Cort, English ironmaster
*
George Dixon (captain) George Dixon, English sea captain and explorer (born
1755)
*
Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (born
1721)
*
Johann Hermann, German physician and naturalist (born
1738)
*
Charles Johnstone, Irish writer (born
1719)
*
Rawlins Lowndes, American lawyer and jurist (born
1721)
*
Elizabeth Montagu, English literary critic (born
1720)
*
Kazimierz Poniatowski, Polish nobleman (born
1721)
*
Gabriel (rebel) Gabriel, African American slave and revolutionary (born
1775)
*
Maciej Radziwill, Polish nobleman (born
1749)
*
Baron von Riedesel, German soldier (born
1738)
*
Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson, English poet (born
1756)
*
Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, English eccentric nobleman (born
1712)
*
Charles Stewart (1729-1800) Charles Stewart, American revolutionary (born
1729)
*
Aleksander August Zamoyski, Polish nobleman
*
Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, Grenadier officer in the French army (born
1743)
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1800, the last year of the
18th century (not the first year of the
19th century as is often erroneously claimed).
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