1800

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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 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Sports – Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1800 (MDCCC) was an exceptional common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Sunday ^[1] 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 since Saturday, March 1 [O.S. February 18, 1800] 1800.

Contents 1 Events of 1800 1.1 January–March 1.2 April–June 1.3 July–September 1.4 October–December 1.5 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January–June 3 Deaths 3.1 January–June 3.2 July–December 4 Notes

[edit] Events of 1800

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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, Britain, and the United States of America, ending the Quasi-War.^[3]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Ongoing events

• French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)–Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
• Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815)–Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

[edit] Births

1800 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1800 MDCCC
Ab urbe condita	2553
Armenian calendar	1249 ԹՎ ՌՄԽԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-44 – -43
Bengali calendar	1207
Berber calendar	2750
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	1855 – 1856
- 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
Thai solar calendar	2343
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[edit] January–June

• January 1 – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (d. 1857)
• January 6 – Anna Maria Hall, Irish writer (d. 1889)
• 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) j
  • 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)
  • 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)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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. 1720)
• August 31 – John Blair, American politician (b. 1732)
• September 2 – Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1749)
• 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)
• November 30 – 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

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