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•  March 21, 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
•  April 24, 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
•  June 7, 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
•  June 14, 1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
•  September 5, 1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
•  October 1, 1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
•  October 7, 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
•  October 17, 1800 – Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
•  November 1, 1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
•  November 17, 1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.

•  April 14, 1800 – John George Appold, fur dyer and engineer (d. 1865)
•  June 23, 1800 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
•  July 19, 1800 – Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military commander and Ecuadorian politician (d. 1864)
•  August 22, 1800 – William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
•  September 23, 1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, American educator and textbook author (d. 1873)
•  October 2, 1800 – Nat Turner, American slave and slave rebellion figure (d. 1831)
•  October 3, 1800 – George Bancroft, American historian and 17th Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
•  October 26, 1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
•  December 29, 1800 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)