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Months in Year 1800: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 1st - Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
Jan 2nd - Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave
Jan 5th - 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore
Jan 8th - Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
Jan 8th - Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
Jan 20th - Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples
Jan 30th - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
Mar 14th - Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
Mar 17th - English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
Mar 20th - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
Apr 2nd - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
Apr 15th - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
Apr 24th - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
May 7th - Indiana Territory organized
May 14th - Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar
May 15th - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
May 15th - Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
Jun 4th - White House completed & President & Mrs John Adams move in
Jun 7th - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
Jun 14th - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
Jun 29th - Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
Jul 8th - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
Jul 9th - Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
Jul 10th - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
Aug 30th - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
Sep 5th - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
Sep 5th - Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
Sep 7th - Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
Sep 13th - Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)
Oct 1st - Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
Oct 17th - Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England
Nov 1st - 1st president to live in white house (John Adams)
Nov 17th - Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building
Nov 17th - John Adams is 1st pres to move into the White House
Nov 24th - Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg
Dec 12th - Washington DC established as capital of US

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 62 of 62

Jan 1st - Sydney Nelson, composer
Jan 1st - Vaclav Horak, composer
Jan 6th - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician
Jan 7th - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)
Jan 11th - Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
Jan 14th - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
Jan 22nd - Nat Turner, slave that revolted [or Oct 2]
Jan 24th - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
Feb 11th - William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer
Feb 14th - Emory Washburn, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877)
Feb 15th - Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
Feb 21st - John Henry Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
Mar 2nd - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
Mar 3rd - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
Mar 12th - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
Mar 14th - James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings)
Mar 16th - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
Mar 25th - Paulin Paris, French historian
Apr 15th - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
Apr 16th - Jozef Stefani, composer
Apr 16th - William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding)
Apr 16th - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
May 1st - Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
May 5th - Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette)
May 6th - Ferdinand Marcucci, composer
May 6th - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
May 9th - John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
May 10th - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer
May 17th - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
May 30th - Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
Jun 1st - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
Jun 23rd - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
Jul 6th - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
Jul 9th - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
Jul 19th - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
Aug 6th - Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)
Aug 21st - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
Aug 22nd - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
Aug 22nd - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
Sep 11th - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
Sep 16th - Jozef Nowakowski, composer
Sep 17th - Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874
Sep 19th - William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865
Sep 23rd - William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
Sep 30th - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
Oct 1st - Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
Oct 2nd - Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)
Oct 3rd - George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame)
Oct 25th - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby)
Oct 26th - Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal
Oct 27th - Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union), died in 1878
Nov 4th - Eduard Brendler, composer
Nov 6th - Eduard Grell, composer
Nov 14th - Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer
Nov 15th - George Rodwell, composer
Nov 23rd - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)
Dec 3rd - France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici)
Dec 4th - Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen)
Dec 17th - Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary)
Dec 21st - Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876
Dec 27th - John Goss, composer
Dec 29th - Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 1st - Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83
Jan 6th - William Jones, composer, dies at 73
Jan 9th - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
Jan 10th - Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46
Jan 23rd - Edward Rutledge, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 50
Feb 23rd - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
Mar 2nd - Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86
Mar 3rd - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer, dies at 64
Mar 9th - Dominique Della-Maria, composer, dies at 30
Mar 29th - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
Apr 18th - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84
Apr 18th - Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
Apr 25th - William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68
Apr 30th - John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
May 7th - Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64
May 7th - Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
May 18th - Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
May 19th - French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged
Jun 7th - Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75
Jun 10th - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
Jun 14th - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
Jun 14th - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (b. 1753)
Jun 20th - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
Aug 3rd - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63
Sep 29th - Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71
Sep 29th - William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
Sep 29th - Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
Oct 7th - Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged
Oct 28th - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
Dec 19th - Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66
Dec 27th - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (b. 1718)