1801 (MDCCCI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1801st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 801st year of the 2nd millennium, the 1st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1801, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
change- Great Britain is united with Ireland to make the United Kingdom.
Deaths
change- February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
- March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
- March 23 – Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)
- March 25 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
- March 28 – Ralph Abercromby, British general (b. 1734)
- April 2 – Thomas Dadford Junior, British engineer
- April 7 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
- May 17 – William Heberden, English doctor (b. 1710)
- June 4 – Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1750)
- June 14 – Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor (b. 1741)
- September 19 – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (b. 1745)
- October 3 – Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
- November 4 – William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1536)
- November 5 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (b. 1730)
- November 24 – Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
Births
change- January 3 – Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
- February 1 – Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)
- towards February 13 – János Kardos Hungarian Slovenes evangelic priest, teacher and writer (d. 1875)
- February 21 – John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1890)
- May 11 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
- June 1 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)
- June 4 – James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
- June 14 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
- June 30 – Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher (d. 1850)
- July 5 – David Farragut, American naval commander (d.1870)
- July 29 – George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
- October 12 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1873)
- November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German writer and publisher (d. 1859)
- November 3 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
- November 10 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
- December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)