Major Events
- Mar 20 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
- Jul 8 Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox
- Nov 17 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building
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Did You Know?
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
Millard Fillmore
William Henry Fox Talbot
John Brown
Nat Turner
George Bancroft
Charles GoodyearMore People Born in 1800
Who Died in 1800
- Jan 1 Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist, dies at 83
- Jan 6 William Jones, British clergyman and author, dies at 73
- Jan 9 Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
- Jan 10 Johan Wikmanson, Swedish composer, dies at 46
- Jan 23 Edward Rutledge, American founding father, Governor of South Carolina (1798-1800) and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies at 50
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Famous Weddings in 1800
- Jan 20 Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries French military leader Joachim Murat, future King of Naples
- Jul 8 British politician and future Prime Minister of UK George Canning (30) weds Scottish heiress Joan Scott (24-ish) at St George's Anglican Church, Hanover Square, London, until his death in 1827
- Aug 19 Social reformer Elizabeth Fry née Gurney (20) weds tea dealer Joseph Fry (23) at the Norwich Quaker Meeting House in Norwich, England
Ludwig van Beethoven
John Adams
Napoléon Bonaparte
William Pitt the Younger