Years: 1797 1798 1799 - 1800 - 1801 1802 1803

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1800 in art 1800 in literature 1800 in music 1800 in science 1800 in sports List of state leaders in 1800 List of religious leaders in 1800

Contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII.
• March 21 - Pius VII becomes Pope
• April 24 - US Library of Congress founded.
• 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 battery
• The 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

Births

• January 7 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853
• 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 chemist
• August 22 - William S. Harney, US general
• October 2 - Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion
• December 3 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet
• Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate
• Emperor Ninko of Japan

Deaths

• January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist
• January 23 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
• March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist

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