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1800

January 1
  • Dutch East Indies Company dissolves. [1]
  • Louis J M Daubenton France, zoologist, dies at age 83. [1]
January 2
  • Free black community of Philadelphia Pennsylvania petitionsUS Congress to abolish slavery. [1]
January 5
  • First Swedenborgian temple in US holds first service, Baltimore Maryland. [1]
January 6
  • William Jones composer, dies at age 73. [1]
January 8
  • Austrians defeat French in second battle of Novi. [1]
  • Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France. [1]
January 10
  • Johan Wikmanson composer, dies at age 46. [1]
January 20
  • Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples. [1]
January 23
  • Edward Rutledge US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at age 50. [1]
January 30
  • US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%). [1]
March 2
  • Christian Friedrich Schale composer, dies at age 86. [1]
March 3
  • Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi composer, dies at age 64. [1]
March 9
  • Dominique Della-Maria composer, dies at age 30. [1]
March 14
  • Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII. [1]
March 17
  • English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die. [1]
March 20
  • French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo. [1]
April 2
  • First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's first Symphony in C. [1]
April 15
  • James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole. [1]
April 18
  • John Evangelist Schreiber composer, dies at age 84. [1]
  • Pieter Fouquet art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies. [1]
April 24
  • Library of Congress is established with $5,000 allocation. [1]
April 25
  • William Cowper English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at age 68. [1]
April 30
  • John H Midderigh Rotterdam patriot, dies at age 46. [1]
May 7
  • Indiana Territory organized. [1]
  • Laurens P van Spiegel regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at age 64. [1]
  • Niccolò Piccinni Italian composer (Roland), dies at age 72. [1]

May 14
  • Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar. [1]
May 15
  • King George III survives a second assassination attempt. [1]
  • Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles. [1]
May 19
  • French Bosbeeck veterinarian/robber, hanged. [1]
July 9
  • Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theatre in US. [1]
September 7
  • Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City). [1]
October 1
  • Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty. [1]
November 1
  • First President to live in the white house (John Adams). [1]
November 17
  • US Congress meets for the first time in Washington, D.C. [1] [129]
December 12
  • Washington DC established as capital of US. [1]
December 19
  • Georg Peter Weimar composer, dies at age 66. [1]

1801

January 1
  • Ireland and Great Britain (England and Scotland) form United Kingdom. [1]
January 2
  • Johann C Lavater Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at age 59. [1]
January 11
  • Domenico Cimarosa Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at age 51. [1]
January 20
  • John Marshall appointed US chief justice. [1]
February 8
  • Johann Chrysostomus Drexel composer, dies at age 43. [1]
February 9
  • France and Austrian sign Peace of Lunéville. [1]
February 17
  • House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr. [1]
February 27
  • Washington DC placed underUS Congressional jurisdiction. [1]
March 3
  • First US Jewish Governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia. [1]
March 4
  • First President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson). [1]
March 7
  • Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law. [1]
March 8
  • British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt. [1]
March 14
  • Christian Friedrich Penzel composer, dies at age 63. [1]
March 17
  • Juan de Sesse y Balaguer composer, dies at age 64. [1]
March 21
  • Andrea Lucchesi composer, dies at age 59. [1]
March 23
  • Murder attempt on Czar Paul I. [1]
  • Paul I tsar of Russia (1796-1801), strangled at age 46. [1]
March 24
  • Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia. [1]
March 25
  • Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at age 69. [1]
  • Novalis writer, dies at age 28. [1]
March 28
  • Ralph Abercromby English army commander (North Holland), dies at age 66. [1]
April 8
  • Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews. [1]
April 11
  • Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans", premieres in Leipzig. [1]
April 24
  • First performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten". [1]
May 5
  • Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt Flemish painter/engraver, dies at age 74. [1]
May 14
  • Johann Ernst Altenburg composer, dies at age 66. [1]
May 15
  • Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian diplomat, dies at age 73. [1]
May 19
  • Herman H Vitringa politician (National Meetings), dies. [1]
May 22
  • Heinrich Gottfried Reichard composer, dies at age 58. [1]
June 10
  • Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute. [1]
June 14
  • Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general, dies in London. [1]
November 10
  • Kentucky outlaws dueling. [1]

1802

January 14
  • Marie Allard French ballerina, dies at age 59. [1]
January 25
  • Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic. [1]
January 26
  • US Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library. [1]
January 27
  • Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer, dies at age 42. [1]
January 29
  • John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress. [1]
February 2
  • First leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents). [1]
February 8
  • Simon Willard patents banjo clock. [1]
March 7
  • Johann Georg Witthauer composer, dies at age 50. [1]
March 16
  • The United States Military Academy is founded by Congress for the purpose of educating and training young men in the theory and practice of military science. [1] [129]
  • US army Corps of Engineers established (second time). [1]
March 25
  • France, Netherlands, Spain and England signs Peace of Amiens. [1]
March 27
  • Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends. [1]
March 28
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. [5]
March 29
  • Frederic Thieme composer, dies at age 51. [1]
April 8
  • French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled. [1]
May 3
  • Washington DC incorporates as a city. [1]
May 19
  • French Order of Légion d'Honneur forms. [1]
July 4
  • US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, New York). [1]
July 22
  • Marie-François-Xavier Bichat a founder of histology, dies. [1]
October 10
  • First non indian settlement in Oklahoma. [1]
December 2
  • English sell Suriname to Dutch. [1]
December 31
  • Francis Lewis Welsh/US merchant/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at age 89. [1]
  • Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen composer, dies at age 53. [1]

1803

January 2
  • Ignaz Franz von Beecke composer, dies at age 69. [1]
January 11
  • Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana. [1]
January 26
  • Georg von Pasterwiz composer, dies at age 72. [1]
February 3
  • Pedro R de Campomanes Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at age 79. [1]
February 4
  • William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature". [1]
February 14
  • Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington Pennsylvania. [1]
February 16
  • Jan V clav Stich Bohemian composer, dies at age 56. [1]
February 17
  • Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guémené archbishop of Straatsburg, dies at age 68. [1]

February 18
  • J W L Gleim writer, dies. [1]
February 19
  • US Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953. [1]
February 21
  • Edward Despard last person drawn and quartered in England. [1]
February 24
  • US Supreme Court first rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury versus Madison). [1]
February 25
  • 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states. [1]
February 27
  • Great fire in Bombay, India. [1]
March 1
  • Ohio becomes 17th state. [1]
March 3
  • First impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins. [1]
March 14
  • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock German poet, dies at age 78. [1]
March 17
  • Candido Jose Ruano composer, dies at age 42. [1]
March 19
  • Johann von Schillers "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar. [1]
April 1
  • French law rules the use of intention. [1]
April 2
  • Hieronymus van Alphen Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at age 56. [1]
April 5
  • First performance of Beethoven's second Symphony in D. [1]
April 7
  • [François Dominique] Toussaint L'Ouverture Haitian revolutionary, dies. [1]
April 26
  • Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France. [1]
April 30
  • US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million). [1]
May 16
  • Peace of Amiens ends. [1]
May 17
  • John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine. [1]
May 18
  • Britain declares war on France after General Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland. [1]
May 22
  • First public library opens (Connecticut). [1]
July 23
  • Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin. [1]
August 9
  • First horses arrive in Hawaii. [1]
September 13
  • John Barry first American commodore, dies. [1]
September 23
  • Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army. [1]
October 20
  • US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. [1]
November 18
  • Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French. [1]
November 30
  • Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France. [1]
December 18
  • Johann G von Herder German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at age 59. [1]
December 20
  • Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27 million. [1]

1804

January 1
  • Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaims independence of Haiti from France. [1]
January 4
  • Charlotte Lennox English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies. [1]
January 5
  • Ohio legislature passes first laws restricting free blacks movement. [1]
January 30
  • Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River. [1]
January 31
  • British Vice-Admiral William Bligh's fleet reaches Curaçao. [1]
February 2
  • Caesar Rodney US judge (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at age 62. [1]
February 6
  • Joseph Priestley England/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at age 70. [1]
February 12
  • Immanuel Kant German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies in Königsberg, Prussia at age 79. [1]
February 15
  • New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery. [1]
February 16
  • Lieutenant Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it. [1]
February 17
  • Christian Ernst Graf composer, dies at age 80. [1]
February 18
  • First US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered. [1]
February 21
  • First locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for first time, in Wales. [1]
February 23
  • Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII. [1]
February 25
  • Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus. [1]
February 26
  • Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad. [1]
March 1
  • Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen composer, dies at age 63. [1]
March 4
  • Karl Leopold Rollig composer, dies. [1]
March 7
  • John Wedgwood founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies. [1]
March 16
  • Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright, dies at age 75. [1]
March 17
  • Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" premieres. [1]
March 20
  • Ignaz Malzat composer, dies at age 47. [1]
March 21
  • French civil Code of Napoleon adopted. [1]
March 26
  • US Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana. [1]
  • Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase. [1]
March 28
  • Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804. [1]
March 29
  • Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti. [1]
April 9
  • Jacques Necker financier/statesman, dies. [1]
April 22
  • Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola. [1]
April 28
  • 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony. [1]
  • Hans Gram composer, dies at age 49. [1]
April 30
  • Hague's Theater opens. [1]
May 6
  • Suriname sold to English (until February 1816). [1]
May 14
  • The Meriwether Lewis and William Clark expedition of about 45 men leaves Saint Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. [1] [129]
May 16
  • Senate and Tribune declare Napolean leader of France. [1]
May 17
  • Lewis and Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. [1]
May 18
  • Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France. [1]
May 21
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition begins. [1]
May 24
  • Simon Style Fries medical/writer, dies at age 73. [1]
June 15
  • 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president. [1]
July 11
  • Vice President Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken. [1]
August 20
  • Charles Floyd only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1]
September 25
  • 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power. [1]
November 30
  • Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins. [1]
December 1
  • Emperor Napoleon marries Joséphine of Martinique. [1]

December 2
  • Napoleon Bonaparte crowned first emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII. [1]
December 5
  • Thomas Jefferson re-elected US President,George Clinton Vice-President. [1]
December 19
  • Mary Bright British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies. [1]

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