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Year '''1800 (Roman numerals|MDCCC)''' was an Leap year#Leap year rules|exceptional common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Sunday "Calendar in year 1800 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), webpage: Julian-1800 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919). of the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar until Friday, , but 12 days ahead since Saturday, .

Events of 1800


- World population was nearing 1 billion people, at 978 million. 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 Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
    - Europe: 203,000,000
    - Latin-America: 24,000,000
    - Northern America: 7,000,000
    - Oceania: 2,000,000

January - March


- February 13 - The Banque de France|Bank of France is founded.
- March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti succeeds Pope Pius VI|Pius VI as Pope Pius VII|Pius VII, the 251st pope.
- March 20 - Alessandro Volta describes his new invention, the voltaic pile, the first chemical Battery (electricity)|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 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 2 - First smallpox vaccination is made in North America, at Trinity Bight, Newfoundland and Labrador|Trinity, Newfoundland.
- June 14 - Battle of Marengo (1800)|Battle of Marengo: Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.

July - September


- September 5 - At the invitation of the Maltese people|Maltese, British troops liberate the Islands of Malta and Gozo from the French.
- September 20 - The Treaty of Mortefontaine is signed between France, Great Britain|Britain, and the United States|United States of America, ending the Quasi-War.
- September 30 - Convention of 1800 is signed.

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 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 German troops.
- December 24
    - An assault on Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris.
    - Peter Coudrin|Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de la Chevalerie found the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Paris.

Undated


- The infrared|infrared radiation is discovered by William Herschel.
- Electrolysis of water is discovered by Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson by passing a voltaic current through water, generating hydrogen and oxygen.
- The Althing of Iceland, the world's oldest parliament, is dissolved, to be restored 3 years later.
- Downing College, Cambridge is founded after a legal action in the Court of Chancery to enforce the will of Sir George Browning, 3rd Baronet.
- A "Steamer on wheels" appeares in the USA.
- Spain cedes the Louisiana Territory - the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains - to France.

Ongoing events


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

Births

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 or did he?)
- 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 (naturalist)|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 (doctor)|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 - 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 (abolitionist)|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 14 - Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist (d. 1884)
- July 19 - Juan José Flores, first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
- July 22
    - Jakob Lorber, German Christian mystic (d. 1864)
    - Robert McCormick (explorer)|Robert McCormick, British Royal Navy surgeon (d. 1890)
- July 31
    - Robert L. Caruthers, Confederate governor of Tennessee (d. 1882)
    - Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882)
- August 4 - Hercules L. Dousman, American trader and financier (d. 1868)
- August 5 - Ramón María Narváez y Campos, 1st Duke of Valencia, Spanish soldier and statesman (d. 1868)
- August 10 - Otto August Rosenberger, German astronomer (d. 1890)
- August 12
    - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist (d. 1864)
    - Ugo Bassi, Italian patriot (d. 1849)
- August 13 - Ippolito Rosellini, Italian Egyptologist (d. 1843)
- August 19
    - Buckner Stith Morris, mayor of Chicago (d. 1879)
    - James Lenox, American bibliophile and philanthropist (d. 1880)
- August 21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
- August 22
    - Edward Barron Chandler, American politician (d. 1880)
    - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
    - Edward Bouverie Pusey, English churchman (d. 1882)
- August 25 - Karl Hase, German Protestant theologian and church historian (d. 1890)
- September 6 - Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
- September 11 - Daniel S. Dickinson, Confederate admiral (d. 1866)
- September 12
    - Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, leading French chess master (d. 1872)
    - William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (d. 1879)
- September 13
    - Franklin Buchanan, officer in the U.S. Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War (d. 1874)
    - David Stewart (Maryland)|David Stewart, American politician (d. 1858)
- September 15 - Paul Friedrich, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1842)
- September 19 - William McKean, admiral in the United States Navy (d. 1865)
- September 20
    - John Pascoe Grenfell, British admiral of the Brazilian Navy (d. 1869)
    - Benjamin Franklin White, American singing master (d. 1879)
- September 22
    - George Bentham, English botanist (d. 1884)
    - Thomas Holloway, English pharmacist and philanthropist (d. 1883)
- September 23 - William Holmes McGuffey, American professor who created the McGuffey Readers (d. 1873)
- September 30 - Decimus Burton, prolific English architect and garden designer (d. 1881)
- October 1 - Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish Lutheran pastor of Sami ancestry (d.1861)
- October 2 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (d. 1831)
- October 3 - George Bancroft, American historian and statesman (d. 1891)
- October 8 - Jules Desnoyers, French geologist and archaeologist (d. 1887)
- October 18 - Henry Taylor, English dramatist (d. 1886)
- October 22 - Christian Lassen, German orientalist (d. 1876)
- October 23 - Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (d. 1885)
- October 25
    - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, British poet (d. 1859)
    - Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher (d. 1875)
- October 26 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (d. 1891)
- October 27 - Benjamin Wade, U.S. lawyer and politician (d. 1878)
- November 4
    - Edwin Waller, American entrepreneur (d. 1881)
    - George Long (scholar)|George Long, English classical scholar (d. 1879)
- November 17 - Achille Fould, French financier and politician (d. 1867)
- November 18 - John Nelson Darby, British evangelist (d. 1882)
- November 22 - Linn Boyd, U.S. politician (d. 1859)
- December 1 - Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet (d. 1855)
- December 3 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849)
- December 4
    - Emil Aarestrup, Danish erotic poet (d. 1856)
    - William Fenwick Williams, British military (d. 1883)
- December 5 - Thomas Ford (politician)|Thomas Ford, governor of Illinois (d. 1850)
- December 7 - Giuseppe Gené, Italian naturalist and author (d. 1847)
- December 20 - Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, English statesman (d. 1885)
- December 25 - John Phillips (geologist)|John Phillips, English geologist (d. 1874)
- December 27 - John Goss, English organist and composer (d. 1880)
- December 29 - Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate (d. 1860)
- ''date unknown
    - Martín Perfecto de Cos, Mexican general (d. 1854)
    - James Glynn, United States Navy officer (d. 1871)
    - Edwin Guest, English antiquary (d. 1880)
    - Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, English painter (d. 1869)
    - Thomas Henry Lister, English novelist (d. 1842)
    - William Simson, Scottish painter (d. 1847)
    - Harriet Smithson, Irish actress (d. 1854)
    - Jacob Westervelt, American shipbuilder and mayor of New York (d. 1856)
- ''probable''
    - Richard Lawrence, attempted assassin of Andrew Jackson (d. 1861)
    - William Nicholson (naval officer)|William Nicholson, officer in the United States Navy (d. 1872)

Deaths

January-June


- January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton,
- January 6
    - William Jones (ecclesiastic)|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 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 (1729-1800)|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. 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 - 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 (poet)|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 (captain)|George Dixon, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1755)
    - Charles Johnstone, Irish writer (b. 1719)
    - Aleksander August Zamoyski, Polish nobleman

Notes

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