crosses the Alps .]]
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Year was a 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, .
- 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 1 - Francis Egerton, 1st Earl Of Ellesmere (died 1857 )
- January 6 - Anna Maria Hall , Irish writer (died 1889 )
- January 7 - Millard Fillmore , 13th President Of The United States (died 1874 )
- January 11 - Anyos Jedlik , Hungarian physicist, the inventor of the Dynamo ( 1895 )
- 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
- --- Johann Gerhard Oncken , German Baptist preacher (died 1884 )
- --- Elizabeth Ann Whitney , Mormon leader (died 1882 )
- January 27 - John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington , English statesman (died 1875 )
- February 1 - Brian Houghton Hodgson , English civil servant (died 1894 )
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- February 6 - Achille Devéria , French painter and lithographer (died 1857 )
- February 9
- --- Hyrum Smith , American religious leader (died 1844 )
- --- 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 )
- --- John Baptist Purcell , U.S. (Irish-born) archbishop (died 1883 )
- March 2 - Evgeny Baratynsky , Russian poet (died 1844 )
- March 3 - Heinrich Georg Bronn , German geologist and paleontologist (died 1862 )
- March 4 - William Price , British physician and eccentric (died 1893 )
- --- Victor Aimé Huber , German social reformer (died 1869 )
- --- George Hudson , English railway financier (died 1871 )
- March 12 - Louis Prosper Gachard , Belgian man of letters (died 1885 )
- March 13 - Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha , Turkish statesman and diplomat
- 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 )
- --- Ernst Heinrich Karl Von Dechen , German geologist and mineralogist (died 1889 )
- March 28 - Johann Georg Wagler , German herpetologist (died 1832 )
- April 2 - Andrzej Artur Zamoyski , Polish nobleman (died 1874 )
- 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 )
- --- 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 1 - James Black , creator of the original Bowie knife (died 1870 )
- May 5 - Louis Christophe François Hachette , French publisher (died 1864 )
- May 6 - Roman Sanguszko , Polish noble (died 1881 )
- May 8 - Armand Carrel , French writer (died 1836 )
- May 9
- --- John Brown , American abolitionist (died 1859 )
- --- Samuel Carter Hall , English journalist (died 1889 )
- May 30 - Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach , German geometer (died 1827 )
- June 1 - Charles Fremantle , Royal Navy officer (died 1869 )
- June 2 - Nicholas P. Trist , secretary to Andrew Jackson (died 1874 )
- June 3 - Gustaw Potworowski , Polish activist (died 1860 )
- June 17 - William Parsons, 3rd Earl Of Rosse , Irish astronomer (died 1867 )
- June 23 - Karol Marcinkowski , Polish physician and social activist (died 1846 )
- June 30 - Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1873 )
- 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 )
- --- Robert McCormick , British Royal Navy surgeon (died 1890 )
- July 31
- --- Robert L. Caruthers , Confederate governor of Tennessee (died 1882 )
- --- Friedrich Wöhler , German chemist (died 1882 )
- August 4 - Hercules L. Dousman , American trader and financier (died 1868 )
- August 5 - Ramón María Narváez Y Campos, 1st Duke Of Valencia , Spanish soldier and statesman (died 1868 )
- August 10 - Otto August Rosenberger , German astronomer (died 1890 )
- August 12
- --- Jean-Jacques Ampère , French philologist (died 1864 )
- --- Ugo Bassi , Italian patriot (died 1849 )
- August 13 - Ippolito Rosellini , Italian Egyptologist (died 1843 )
- August 19
- --- Buckner Stith Morris , mayor of Chicago (died 1879 )
- --- James Lenox , American bibliophile and philanthropist (died 1880 )
- August 21 - Hiram Walden , American politician (died 1880 )
- August 22
- --- Edward Barron Chandler , American politician (died 1880 )
- --- William S. Harney , U.S. general (died 1889 )
- --- 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 12
- --- Pierre St. Amant , leading French chess master (died 1872 )
- --- William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke Of Portland (died 1879 )
- 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 )
- --- 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
- --- John Pascoe Grenfell , British admiral of the Brazilian Navy (died 1869 )
- --- Benjamin Franklin White , American singing master (died 1879 )
- September 22
- --- George Bentham , English botanist (died 1884 )
- --- 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 )
- --- Jacques Paul Migne , French priest, theologian, and publisher (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 , American entrepreneur (died 1881 )
- --- 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 )
- 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 )
- --- 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 20 - Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax , English statesman (died 1885 )
- 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 )
- ''date unknown
- --- Elias Boudinot , Cherokee who started and edited the tribe's first newspaper (died 1839 )
- --- John McLeod Campbell , Scottish churchman (died 1872 )
- --- Martín Perfecto De Cos , Mexican general (died 1854 )
- --- James Glynn , United States Navy officer (died 1871 )
- --- Edwin Guest , English antiquary (died 1880 )
- --- Frederick Yeates Hurlstone , English painter (died 1869 )
- --- Thomas Henry Lister , English novelist (died 1842 )
- --- William Simson , Scottish painter (died 1847 )
- --- Harriet Smithson , Irish actress (died 1854 )
- --- Jacob Westervelt , American shipbuilder and mayor of New York (died 1856 )
- ''probable''
- --- Richard Lawrence , attempted assassin of Andrew Jackson (died 1861 )
- --- William Nicholson , officer in the United States Navy (died 1872 )
: ''See also .''
- January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton , French naturalist (born 1716 )
- January 6
- --- William Jones , English divine (born 1726 )
- --- Baron Von Riedesel , German soldier (born 1738 )
- 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 - Joseph De Guignes , French orientalist (born 1721 )
- 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 13 - Kazimierz Poniatowski , Polish nobleman (born 1721 )
- April 25
- --- Ezekiel Cornell , Continental Congressman from Rhode Island (born 1732 )
- --- 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 , French military leader (killed in battle) (born 1768 )
- --- Jean Baptiste Kléber , French general (assassinated) (born 1753 )
- June 20 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician (born 1719 )
- June 24 - Charles Stewart , American revolutionary (born 1729 )
- June 28 - Théophile Corret De La Tour D'Auvergne , Grenadier officer in the French army (born 1743 )
- 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 24 - Rawlins Lowndes , American lawyer and jurist (born 1721 )
- August 25 - Elizabeth Montagu , English literary critic (born 1720 )
- August 31 - John Blair , American politician (born 1732 )
- September 2 - Maciej Radziwiłł , Polish nobleman (born 1749 )
- 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 4 - Johann Hermann , German physician and naturalist (born 1738 )
- October 10 - Gabriel Prosser , African American slave and revolutionary (born 1775 )
- 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 )
- November 14 - François Claude Amour, Marquis De Bouillé , French general (born 1739 )
- November 30 - Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby , English eccentric nobleman (born 1712 )
- December 7 - Wilhelm Von Knyphausen , Hessian Lieutenant-General (born 1716 )
- December 17 - William Peery , American farmer and lawyer (born 1743 )
- December 26 - Mary Robinson , English poet (born 1756 )
- December 27 - Hugh Blair , Scottish Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Jean-Baptiste Audebert , French artist and naturalist
- --- Samuel Barrington , British admiral (born 1729 )
- --- Thomas Conway , Irish soldier (born 1734 )
- --- Henry Cort , English ironmaster
- --- George Dixon , English sea captain and explorer (born 1755 )
- --- Charles Johnstone , Irish writer (born 1719 )
- --- Aleksander August Zamoyski , Polish nobleman
: ''See also .''
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