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Historical Event(s)
– The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
– 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.
– First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
– Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
– 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)
– Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (d. 1883)
– George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
– Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
– Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
– Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
– Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
– Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
– Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)