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What Happened In Year 1801?

• January 1, 1801 – The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
• January 20, 1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
• February 4, 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
• February 17, 1801 – 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.
• February 27, 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• March 21, 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
• March 23, 1801 – 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.
• April 2, 1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British destroy the Danish fleet.
• May 6, 1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
• May 10, 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
• July 6, 1801 – Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
• July 11, 1801 – 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.
• August 1, 1801 – 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.
• September 9, 1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.

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