Notable Historical Events - 1800
1800 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Dutch East Indies Company dissolves |
Jan 2 |
Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave |
Jan 5 |
1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore |
Jan 8 |
Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi |
Jan 8 |
Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France |
Jan 30 |
US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) |
Mar 14 |
Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII |
Mar 17 |
British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die |
Mar 20 |
French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo |
Mar 20 |
Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London |
Apr 2 |
1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C |
Apr 24 |
Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation |
May 7 |
Indiana Territory organized |
May 14 |
Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar |
May 15 |
King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt |
May 15 |
Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles |
Jun 7 |
David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. |
Jun 14 |
Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria |
Jun 29 |
Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar |
Jul 8 |
Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox |
Jul 9 |
Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US |
Jul 10 |
The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. |
Aug 30 |
Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia |
Sep 5 |
Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops |
Sep 7 |
Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC) |
Sep 13 |
Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803) |
Oct 1 |
Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty |
Oct 17 |
Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England |
Nov 1 |
John Adams becomes the first US president to live in White House |
Nov 17 |
Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building |
Nov 24 |
Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen" premieres in Freiburg |
Nov 24 |
Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland depart Caracas for Cuba where they met fellow botanist John Fraser |
Dec 12 |
Washington DC established as capital of US |
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