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Historical Event(s)
– The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
– An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
– Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
– Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle.
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British destroy the Danish fleet.
– Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
– French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
– First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
– Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
Who Were Born On ?
– Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
– John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890)
– Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
– Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
– George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
– Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)
– Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
– Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
– Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
– Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)