1800
1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
EventsMarch 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII. March 21 - Pius VII becomes Pope April 24 - US Library of Congress founded.May 5 - Great Britain passes the Act of Union to join Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take effect on 1 January 1801. The act is signed by King George III in August.May 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy. June 2 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.June 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.September 5 - The island of Malta, that was occupied by the French, is conquered by British troops. November 1 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House). November 17 - The U.S. Congress holds its first Washington, DC session.December 3 - Battle of Hohenlinden, the French army defeats the Austrian troops.December 24 - An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris.Invention of the voltaic pile by Alessandro Volta: the first chemical batteryThe infrared radiation is discovered by Wilhelm Herschel. The Althing of Iceland, the world's oldest parliament, is abolished.
Ongoing events French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
BirthsJanuary 7 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853February 9 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)February 11 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer March 15 - Heinrich von Dechsen, geologist and mineralogist (d. 1889) May 9 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)June 23 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)July 31 - Friedrich Wöhler, German chemistAugust 22 - William S. Harney, US generalOctober 2 - Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellionDecember 3 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poetCharles Goodyear, American rubber magnateEmperor Ninko of Japan
DeathsJanuary 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalistJanuary 23 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist
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