1801

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Years:	1798 1799 1800 – 1801 – 1802 1803 1804

1801 Media

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  March 21: Battle of Alexandria. Depicted in Philip James de Loutherbourg's The Battle of Alexandria.

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  The Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon.

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  • Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh), by Samuel Laurence (died 1884), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1898. See source website for additional information.
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  • John Henry Newman, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt (died 1896)
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  Portrait of William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69

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  Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria

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  Hortense Allart

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  Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer

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1801 (MDCCCI) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar. It was the 1st year of the 19th century.

Events

• Great Britain is united with Ireland to make the United Kingdom.

Deaths

• 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

• 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)