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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1801.

Events

April 1 – A letter from "the author of Génie du christianisme" (François-René de Chateaubriand) is published in Le Publiciste, Chateaubriand having returned to France the previous year under an amnesty issued to émigrés.^[1]
April 2 – Battle of Copenhagen: In recognition of the English attack on Copenhagen, Adam Oehlenschläger produces his first dramatic sketch April the Second 1801.^[2]
May – Jane Austen moves with her family to Bath.^[3]
Hindusthani Press established in Calcutta, India, by John Gilchrist.^[4]
The second edition of Specimens of the Early English Poets, edited by George Ellis and covering poems from the Old English through to the 17th century, is influential in acquainting the general reading public with Middle English poetry, going through a further 4 editions.^[5]
The first complete Bible translation into Scottish Gaelic, Am Bìoball Gàidhlig, is published.

Christoph von Schmid – Biblische Geschichte für Kinder (Bible Stories for Children)^[7]
Priscilla Wakefield – The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of a Family during a Tour through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe

February 16 – Frederic Madden, English palaeographer (died 1873)
February 21 – Cardinal John Henry Newman, English theologian and autobiographer (died 1890)
March 4 – Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, Swiss theologian and historian (died 1874)
March 15 – George Perkins Marsh, American philologist (died 1882)
May 9 – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, Swedish novelist (died 1873)
May 31 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist and textual critic (died 1877)
August 10 – Christian Hermann Weisse, German Protestant religious philosopher (died 1866)
September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French wit and dandy (died 1852)
September 7 – Hortense Allart, Milanese-born French feminist novelist (died 1879)
November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German guidebook publisher (died 1859)
November 10 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (died 1872)
November 22 – Abraham Hayward, English man of letters (died 1884)
November 24 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer and collector of folk tales (died 1860)
December 4 – Karl Ludwig Michelet, German philosopher (died 1893)
December 7 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist (died 1862)
December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German dramatist (died 1836)
December 12 – Edward Moxon, English poet and publisher (died 1858)

January 2 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet (born 1741)
January 9 – Margaretta Faugères, American playwright, poet and political activist (born 1771)
January 13 – Robert Orme, English historian of India (born 1728)
March 14 – Ignacy Krasicki, Polish poet and prince-bishop (born 1735)
March 21 – John Holt, English scholar (born 1743)
March 25 – Novalis, German poet (born 1772)
April 11 – Antoine de Rivarol, French scholar and epigrammatist (born 1753)
September 1 – Robert Bage, English novelist (born 1728)
September 7 – Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini, Italian painter, poet and art historian (born 1710)
September 23 – Thomas Nowell, Welsh-born controversialist and historian (born c. 1730)^[9]
December 25 – Hester Chapone, English writer of conduct books (born 1827)

^ François-René de Chateaubriand (18 October 2012). Atala. René les Natchez. Le Livre de Poche. pp. 498–. ISBN 978-2-253-09467-8.
^ Charles Knight (1857). The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Biography. Bradbury & Evans. p. 2.
^ Ballinger, Gill (Winter 2013), "Austen's Bath and Bath's Jane", Persuasions On-line, vol. 34, no. 1, Jane Austen Society of North America, retrieved 2014-06-05
^ Das, Sisir Kumar (2006). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1800–1910". A History of Indian Literature: Western Impact, Indian Response, 1800–1910. Sahitya Akademi.
^ Jane Campbell (1 January 2006). The Retrospective Review (1820-1828) and the Revival of Seventeenth Century Poetry. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-0-88920-866-7.
^ Kamilla Elliott (19 October 2012). Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction: The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835. JHU Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4214-0717-3.
^ Walther Killy; Rudolf Vierhaus (30 November 2011). Plett - Schmidseder. Walter de Gruyter. p. 769. ISBN 978-3-11-096630-5.
^ A History of German Literature. Ardent Media. p. 311. GGKEY:WDSFB5WXYFD.
^ Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Or, A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: From the Earliest Time to Year MDCCXV. Oxford University Press. p. 585.