1801

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1801_-_1900

1801 (MDCCCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

May 10 - The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.

Aachen is officially annexed by France.
A census in London revealed it to have 860,035 residents.
First census in France.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed a loom where the pattern being woven was controlled by punch cards.
The ultraviolet radiation is discovered by Johann Wilhelm Ritter.

January 3 - Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
February 1 - Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)
February 21 - John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1890)
May 11 - Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
June 1 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)
June 4 - James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
June 14 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
June 30 - Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher (d. 1850)
July 5 - David Farragut, American naval commander (d.1870)
July 29 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
October 12 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1873)
November 3 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
November 3 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
November 10 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
December 11 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)
Dai Xi, Chinese painter (d. 1860)
Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, Polish writer

February 7 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
March 21 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
March 23 - Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)
March 25 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
March 28 - Ralph Abercromby, British general (b. 1734)
April 2 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British engineer
April 7 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
May 17 - William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
June 4 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1750)
September 19 - Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (b. 1745)
October 3 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
November 4 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1712)
5 November - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (b. 1730)
November 24 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)

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