1801 Calendar
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1801 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1801
– The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
February 4, 1801
– John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
February 27, 1801
– Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
March 21, 1801
– The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
March 23, 1801
– Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle.
May 6, 1801
– Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
May 10, 1801
– First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
July 6, 1801
– Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
August 1, 1801
– First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
Who Were Born On 1801?
January 29, 1801
– Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
May 9, 1801
– Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (d. 1866)
May 16, 1801
– William H. Seward, American politician and diplomat (d. 1872)
June 15, 1801
– Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (d. 1883)
June 16, 1801
– Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
September 7, 1801
– Sarel Cilliers, Voortrekker leader and preacher (d.1871)
September 10, 1801
– Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
September 24, 1801
– Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
October 12, 1801
– Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873)
November 3, 1801
– Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)