1800

This article is about the year 1800. For other uses, see 1800 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1797 1798 1799 – 1800 – 1801 1802 1803

1800 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Australia – Canada – Great Britain – United States

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1800 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1800 MDCCC
Ab urbe condita	2553
Armenian calendar	1249 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6550
Bahá'í calendar	-44–-43
Bengali calendar	1207
Berber calendar	2750
British Regnal year	40 Geo. 3 – 41 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2344
Burmese calendar	1162
Byzantine calendar	7308–7309
Chinese calendar	己未年十二月初七日 (4436/4496-12-7) — to — 庚申年十一月十六日 (4437/4497-11-16)
Coptic calendar	1516–1517
Ethiopian calendar	1792–1793
Hebrew calendar	5560–5561
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1856–1857
- Shaka Samvat	1722–1723
- Kali Yuga	4901–4902
Holocene calendar	11800
Iranian calendar	1178–1179
Islamic calendar	1214–1215
Japanese calendar	Kansei 12 (寛政12年)
Korean calendar	4133
Minguo calendar	112 before ROC 民前112年
Thai solar calendar	2343

Year 1800 (MDCCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar until Friday, February 28 [O.S. February 17, 1800] 1800, but 12 days ahead from Saturday, March 1 [O.S. February 18, 1800] 1800.

Napoleon crosses the Alps.

Events

• World population was nearing 1 billion people. The 1 billion milestone would not be reached until two years later, in 1802. The population distribution by region:
  • Africa: 107,000,000
  • Asia: 635,000,000
    • China: 300–400,000,000
  • Europe: 203,000,000
  • Latin-America: 24,000,000
  • Northern America: 7,000,000
  • Oceania: 2,000,000

January–March

• February 13 – The Bank of France is founded.
• March 14 – Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti succeeds Pius VI as Pius VII, the 251st pope.
• March 20 – Alessandro Volta describes his new invention, the voltaic pile, the first chemical battery, in a letter to the Royal Society.

April–June

• April – Voting begins in the United States presidential election, 1800; it will last until October. The result is not announced until February 1801.
• April 24 – The U.S. Library of Congress is founded.
• May 5 – Great Britain passes the 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 in August.
• May 15 – Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
• June 2 – First smallpox vaccination is made in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
• June 14 – Battle of Marengo: Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.

July–September

• September 5 – At the invitation of the Maltese, British troops liberate the Islands of Malta and Gozo from the French.
• September 30 – The Convention of 1800, or Treaty of Mortefontaine, is signed between France and the United States of America, ending the Quasi-War.

October–December

• 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).
  • Middlebury College is granted its charter by the Vermont General Assembly.
• November 17 – The U.S. Congress holds its first Washington, D.C. session.
• December 3 – Battle of Hohenlinden: the French army defeats German troops.
• December 24
  • An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris.
  • Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie found the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Paris.

Births

January–June

• January 1 – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (d. 1857)
• January 6 – Anna Maria Hall, Irish writer (d. 1881)
• January 7 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
• January 11 – Anyos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist, the inventor of the Dynamo (d.1895)
• January 12 – George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, English diplomat and statesman (d. 1870)
• January 14 – Ludwig von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
• January 17 – Caleb Cushing, American statesman and diplomat (d. 1879)
• January 24 – Edwin Chadwick, English social reformer (d. 1890)
• January 26
  • Johann Gerhard Oncken, German Baptist preacher (d. 1884)
  • Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Mormon leader (d. 1882)
• January 27 – John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, English statesman (d. 1875)
• February 1 – Brian Houghton Hodgson, English civil servant (d. 1894)
• February 6 – Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
• February 9
  • Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
  • Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter (d. 1876)
• February 11 – William Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (d. 1877)
• February 12 – John Edward Gray, British zoologist (d. 1875)
• February 23 – William Jardine, Scottish naturalist (d. 1874)
• February 26
  • Lucius Lyon, U.S. statesman (d. 1851)
  • John Baptist Purcell, U.S. (Irish-born) archbishop (d. 1883)
• March 2 – Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
• March 3 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1862)
• March 4 – William Price, British physician and eccentric (d. 1893)
• March 10
  • Victor Aimé Huber, German social reformer (d. 1869)
  • George Hudson, English railway financier (d. 1871)
• March 12 – Louis Prosper Gachard, Belgian man of letters (d. 1885)
• March 13 – Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Turkish statesman and diplomat
• March 16 – Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
• March 17 – Rudolf Ewald Stier, German Protestant churchman and mystic (d. 1862)
• March 20
  • Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican head of state and politician (d. 1845)
  • Gottfried Bernhardy, German philologist and literary historian (d. 1875)
• March 25
  • Alexis Paulin Paris, French scholar and author (d. 1881)
  • Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and mineralogist (d. 1889)
• March 28 – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist (d. 1832)
• April 2 – Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1874)
• April 4 – Tokugawa Nariaki, Japanese daimyo of Mito (d. 1860)
• April 15 – James Clark Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1862)
• April 16
  • Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (d. 1879)
  • George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
• April 29 – Hiram Cronk, last surviving veteran of the War of 1812 (d. 1905)
• May 1 – James Black, creator of the original Bowie knife (d. 1870)
• May 4 – John McLeod Campbell, Scottish churchman (d. 1872)
• May 5 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
• May 6 – Roman Sanguszko, Polish noble (d. 1881)
• May 8 – Armand Carrel, French writer (d. 1836)
• May 9
  • John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
  • Samuel Carter Hall, English journalist (d. 1889)
• May 30 – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (d. 1827)
• June 1 – Charles Fremantle, Royal Navy officer (d. 1869)
• June 2 – Nicholas P. Trist, secretary to Andrew Jackson (d. 1874)
• June 3 – Gustaw Potworowski, Polish activist (d. 1860)
• June 17 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer (d. 1867)
• June 23 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
• June 30 – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1873)

July–December

• July 19 – Juan Jose Flores, former President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
• July 24 – Henry Shaw, American botanist (d. 1889)
• August 12 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist, writer, and historian (d. 1864)
• August 22 – Frank Stone, English painter (d. 1859)
• September 1 – Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli, Italian naturalist (d. 1874)
• September 22 – George Bentham, English botanist (d. 1884)
• October 14 – John Hogan, Irish sculptor (d. 1858)
• October 23 – Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (d. 1885)
• November 21 – Barney Aaron, English bare-knuckle boxer (d. 1850)
• December 3 – France Prešeren, Slovenian romantic poet (d. 1849)
• December 25 – John Phillips, British geologist (d. 1874)
• December 26 – Paul Curtis, American shipbuilder (d. uncertain)
• date unknown
  • Elizabeth Austin, English opera singer and actress (d. 1835)
  • Abraham Rice, in Germany, first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States (d. 1862)

Deaths

January–June

• January 1 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French Naturalist (b. 1716)
• January 6
  • William Jones, English divine (b. 1726)
  • Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier (b. 1738)
• January 9 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b.1762)
• January 13 – Dempsey Burges, Republican U.S. Congressman (b. 1751)
• January 20 – Thomas Mifflin, fifth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation (b. 1744)
• January 22 – George Steevens, English Shakespearean commentator (b. 1736)
• January 23 – Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
• February 2 – James C. Jarvis, United States Navy officer (b. 1787)
• February 23 – Joseph Warton, English academic and literary critic (b. 1722)
• March – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (b. 1721)
• March 1 – John Hazelwood, officer in the Continental Navy (b. 1726)
• March 13 – Nana Phadnavis, Maratha statesman (b. 1742)
• March 14 – Daines Barrington, English naturalist (b. 1727)
• March 21 – William Blount, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
• March 29 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
• April 13 – Kazimierz Poniatowski, Polish nobleman (b. 1721)
• April 25
  • Ezekiel Cornell, Continental Congressman from Rhode Island (b. 1732)
  • William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
• May 4 – Armand, duc d'Aiguillon (b. 1750)
• May 7 – Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
• May 18 – Alexander Suvorov, Count of Rymnik (b. 1729)
• May 23 – Henry Cort, English ironmaster (b. 1740)
• June 14
  • Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (killed in battle) (b. 1768)
  • Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (assassinated) (b. 1753)
• June 20 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
• June 24 – Charles Stewart, American revolutionary (b. 1729)
• June 28 – Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, Grenadier officer in the French army (b. 1743)
• June 30 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, British politician (b. 1732)

July–December

• July 14 – Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (b. 1750)
• July 18 – John Rutledge, governor of South Carolina (b. 1739)
• August 24 – Rawlins Lowndes, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1721)
• August 25 – Elizabeth Montagu, English literary critic (b. 1718)
• August 31 – John Blair, American politician (b. 1732)
• September 2 – Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1749)
• September 10 – Johann David Schoepf, German naturalist and doctor (d. 1752)
• September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746)
• September 27 – William Gibbons, American lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1726)
• September 29 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
• October 4 – Johann Hermann, German physician and naturalist (b. 1738)
• October 10 – Gabriel Prosser, American slave revolutionary
• October 16 – Benjamin Huntington, American lawyer and politician (b. 1736)
• October 28 – Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts (b. 1727)
• November 5 – Jesse Ramsden, English astronomical instrument maker (b. 1735)
• November 14 – François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, French general (b. 1739)
• November 30
  • Charles Adams, second son of John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States (b. 1770)
  • Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, English eccentric nobleman (b. 1712)
• December 7 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant-General (b. 1716)
• December 17 – William Peery, American farmer and lawyer (b. 1743)
• December 26 – Mary Robinson, English poet (b. 1756)
• December 27 – Hugh Blair, Scottish Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)

Date unknown

• Jean-Baptiste Audebert, French artist and naturalist
• Samuel Barrington, British admiral (b. 1729)
• Thomas Conway, Irish soldier (b. 1734)
• George Dixon, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1755)
• Charles Johnstone, Irish writer (b. 1719)
• Aleksander August Zamoyski, Polish nobleman