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•  January 1, 1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
•  January 20, 1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
•  February 4, 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
•  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.
•  April 2, 1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British destroy the Danish fleet.
•  May 6, 1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
•  July 6, 1801 – Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
•  July 11, 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
•  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.

•  January 29, 1801 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
•  April 26, 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
•  May 9, 1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (d. 1866)
•  June 4, 1801 – James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
•  August 21, 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
•  September 7, 1801 – Sarel Cilliers, Voortrekker leader and preacher (d.1871)
•  September 24, 1801 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
•  November 10, 1801 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
•  November 13, 1801 – Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, queen of Saxony (d. 1877)
•  December 7, 1801 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)