|
| |
18th century
|
| |
19th century
|
| |
20th century
|
| |
1797
|
| |
1798
|
| |
1799
|
| |
1800
|
| |
1801
|
| |
1802
|
| |
1803
|
| |
1770s
|
| |
1780s
|
| |
1790s
|
| |
1800s
|
| |
1810s
|
| |
1820s
|
| |
1830s
|
was an
Exceptional Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
- World Population 1 billion.
- February - Foundation of the Bank Of France
- March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected Pope as Pius VII .
- March 21 - Pius VII is ordained.
- April 24 - U.S. Library Of Congress 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 14 - Battle Of Marengo , Napoleon defeats the Austria n troops near Marengo, Italy .
- June 2 - First Smallpox Vaccination in North America , at Trinity, Newfoundland .
- June 27 - Pascha 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 U.S. Congress holds its first Washington, D.C. session.
- December 3 - Battle Of Hohenlinden , the French army defeats the Austrian troops.
- December 24 - An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris .
- December 24 - Pierre Coudrin and Henriette Aymer De La Chevalerie found the Congregation Of The Sacred Hearts Of Jesus And Mary in Paris .
- Invention of the
- The Infrared Radiation is discovered by Wilhelm Herschel .
- The Althing of Iceland , the world's oldest Parliament , is abolished.
- 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 , 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 5 - Louis Christophe François Hachette , French publisher (died 1864 )
- May 8 - Armand Carrel , French writer (died 1836 )
- May 9 - 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 , British Royal Navy surgeon (died 1890 )
- July 31 - 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 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 , 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 , governor of Illinois (died 1850 )
- December 7 - Giuseppe Gené , Italian naturalist and author (died 1847 )
- December 25 - 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 )
- 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 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 )
- Martín 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 María Narváez Y Campos, Duke Of Valencia , Spanish soldier and statesman (died 1868 )
- 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 , 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 )
- January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton , French naturalist (born 1716 )
- January 6 - 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 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 )
- 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 , 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 , African American slave and revolutionary (born 1775 )
- Maciej Radziwill , Polish nobleman (born 1749 )
- Baron Von Riedesel , German soldier (born 1738 )
- Mary Robinson , English poet (born 1756 )
- Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby , English eccentric nobleman (born 1712 )
- 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 )