1800

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1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of State

Events

• March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII
• March 21 - Pius VII becomes Pope
• 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 United States 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

• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign

• 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 (+ 1889)
• May 9 - John Brown, American abolitionist (+ 1859)
• July 31 - Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist
• October 2 - Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion
• December 3 - France Prešeren;, Slovenian poet
• Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate
• Emperor Ninko of Japan

• January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist
• March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist

• China - Jiaqing Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from February 9, 1796 to September 2, 1820)
• United States - John Adams (March 4, 1797 to March 4, 1801)

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