1801

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s – 1800s – 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years:	1798 1799 1800 – 1801 – 1802 1803 1804

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1801 Media

March 21: Battle of Alexandria. Depicted in Philip James de Loutherbourg's The Battle of Alexandria.
The Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon.
- 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.
- John Henry Newman, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt (died 1896)
Portrait of William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69
Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria
Hortense Allart
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
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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.

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)

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)