What is 1801?
{{Year nav|1801}} {{Year in various calendars|1801}} '''1801''' ([[Roman numerals|MDCCCI]]) was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[Julian calendar]]. It was the 1st year of the [[19th century]]. As of the start of the year, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar. == Events == * [[Great Britain]] is united with [[Ireland]] to make the [[United Kingdom]]. == Deaths == * [[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]]) == Births == * [[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