Important Historical Events of the year 1801, Year 1801 in History

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What happened in the year 1801?

Date	Event
January 1, 1801	The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is proclaimed.
January 1, 1801	Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
February 4, 1801	John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
February 17, 1801	1800 United States presidential election: An tie in the Electoral College 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 8, 1801	War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
March 21, 1801	The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt.
March 23, 1801	Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
March 28, 1801	Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
April 2, 1801	French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
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	First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
July 11, 1801	French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
July 12, 1801	British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
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.