1800 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1800?
- January 1, 1800 – The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
- March 21, 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
- April 2, 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
- April 24, 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
- May 15, 1800 – George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
- June 7, 1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
- June 14, 1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
- August 1, 1800 – The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- August 30, 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
- September 5, 1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
- October 1, 1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
- October 7, 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
- October 17, 1800 – Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
- November 1, 1800 – 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, 1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- December 3, 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
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