Events Date 1800 | History by KabAstro

Pius VI Finally Buried

Jan 30 Pope Pius VI's embalmed remains are finally buried five months after his death in Valance, France

Jan 30 US population: 5,308,483; African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%)

Pope Pius VII

Mar 14 Luigi Chiaramonti elected Pope Pius VII

Mar 17 British warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire off the Tuscan Archipelago; 700 die

Electric Battery Discovered

Mar 20 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London

Mar 20 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo

Beethoven's 1st Symphony

Apr 2 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C

Apr 24 US Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
May 7 Indiana Territory organized

Lamarck Outlines his Theories of Evolution

May 11 French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck gives his first lecture outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France

May 14 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth" premieres in Weimar

Assassination Attempt on George III

May 15 King George III survives a second assassination attempt

King of Great Britain and Ireland George III

May 15 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles

Thompson Reaches Saskatchewan River Mouth

Jun 7 Anglo-Canadian explorer David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba

Explorer and Cartographer David Thompson

Battle of Marengo

Jun 14 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Napoleon Bonaparte's French army overcomes Austrian forces in Piedmont, Italy

Jun 29 Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar
Jun 30 Glasgow Police Act establishes the City of Glasgow Police, considered the 1st modern-style municipal police force, in Glasgow, Scotland
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
Jul 28 Thames River Police established by act of British parliament, replacing earlier Marine Police (1798-1800) - world's oldest continuously serving police force
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 transfererd to Great Britain

Adams moves into the White House

Nov 1 John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House

2nd US President and Founding Father John Adams

Nov 7 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)
Nov 17 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building
Nov 17 U.S. Congress meets for the first time in the newly built Capitol in Washington, D.C., which had been established by The Residence Act of July 16, 1790

Humbodt, Bonpland Depart Caracas

Nov 24 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland depart Caracas for Cuba to meet fellow botanist John Fraser, during their five-year expedition of Spanish America