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]