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Special Events for the Year 1801 - back to GREGSITE

Born :06/01/1801Brigham Young, painter/religious leader (Mormon church)/polygamist
Born :04/11/1801Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
Born :06/23/1801Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army) died in 1863
Born :07/05/1801David G Farragut, Knoxville Tenn, naval hero
Born :07/05/1801David Glasgow Farragut, Vice Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1870
Born :09/17/1801Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights)
Born :07/27/1801George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
Born :05/06/1801George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Born :09/12/1801Giuseppe Concone, Italian child singer
Born :08/21/1801Guillaume Groen van Princeterer, statesman/historian
Born :04/19/1801Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philospher/physicist
Born :04/07/1801Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
Born :12/28/1801James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Born :06/04/1801James Pennethorne, architect
Born :12/17/1801Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
Born :02/21/1801John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
Born :02/07/1801John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
Born :10/14/1801Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs)
Born :04/12/1801Joseph F K Lanner, Austria, composer/violist
Born :07/16/1801Julius Plcker, German mathematician/physicist (Plcker formulas)
Born :11/03/1801Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
Born :07/26/1801Ret Major General John Drake Sloat, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867
Born :08/10/1801Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
Born :05/09/1801Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
Born :02/01/1801Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
Born :05/16/1801William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2›/acre)
Died :06/14/1801Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London
Died :01/11/1801Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il matrimonio segreto), dies at 5
Died :05/19/1801Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
Died :05/15/1801Louis C Graf Barbiano de Belgioioso, minister of Brussel, dies
Died :11/05/1801Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese expert, dies
Died :09/01/1801Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies
Special :03/03/18011st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
Special :03/04/18011st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
Special :03/08/1801British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
Special :07/11/1801French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
Special :01/01/1801Giuseppe Piazzi discovers asteroid #1 Ceres
Special :02/17/1801House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
Special :01/01/1801Ireland & Great Britain (England & Scotland) form United Kingdom
Special :01/20/1801John Marshall appointed US chief justice
Special :11/10/1801Kentucky outlaws dueling
Special :03/07/1801Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
Special :07/07/1801Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
Special :06/10/1801Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
Special :02/27/1801Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction

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