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Special Events for the Year 1800 - back to GREGSITE
| Born : | 12/21/1800 | Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876 |
| Born : | 10/27/1800 | Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union), died in 1878 |
| Born : | 12/29/1800 | Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber) |
| Born : | 09/17/1800 | Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874 |
| Born : | 10/03/1800 | George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame) |
| Born : | 07/25/1800 | Heinrich R G”ppert, German paleo-botanist |
| Born : | 10/26/1800 | Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-field marshal |
| Born : | 03/14/1800 | James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings) |
| Born : | 04/15/1800 | James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic) |
| Born : | 05/09/1800 | John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry |
| Born : | 02/21/1800 | John Henry Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
| Born : | 05/30/1800 | Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach) |
| Born : | 11/23/1800 | Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti) |
| Born : | 12/01/1800 | Mih ly V”r”smarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer") |
| Born : | 01/07/1800 | Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53) |
| Born : | 10/02/1800 | Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) |
| Born : | 01/22/1800 | Nat Turner, slave that revolted |
| Born : | 03/25/1800 | Paulin Paris, French historian |
| Born : | 05/01/1800 | Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 |
| Born : | 01/24/1800 | Sir Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer |
| Born : | 10/25/1800 | Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby) |
| Born : | 04/16/1800 | William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding) |
| Born : | 09/23/1800 | William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers) |
| Born : | 02/11/1800 | William Henry Fox Talbot, English physicist/chemist |
| Born : | 09/19/1800 | William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865 |
| Died : | 10/07/1800 | Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged |
| Died : | 06/10/1800 | Johann A P Schulz, German composer, dies |
| Died : | 01/01/1800 | Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies |
| Died : | 05/07/1800 | Niccol• Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72 |
| Died : | 04/18/1800 | Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies |
| Died : | 04/25/1800 | William Cowper, poet, dies |
| Special : | 01/05/1800 | 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore |
| Special : | 11/01/1800 | 1st president to live in white house (John Adams) |
| Special : | 01/08/1800 | Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi |
| Special : | 06/14/1800 | Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria |
| Special : | 11/17/1800 | Congress held 1st session in Washington DC |
| Special : | 09/13/1800 | Cura‡ao in English hands (until Jan 1803) |
| Special : | 03/17/1800 | English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die |
| Special : | 05/07/1800 | Indiana Territory organized |
| Special : | 04/15/1800 | James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole |
| Special : | 04/24/1800 | Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation |
| Special : | 07/09/1800 | Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theatre in US |
| Special : | 01/20/1800 | Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples |
| Special : | 05/15/1800 | Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles |
| Special : | 10/01/1800 | Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty |
| Special : | 01/30/1800 | US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) |
| Special : | 12/12/1800 | Washington DC established as capital of US |
| Special : | 01/08/1800 | Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France |
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