What Happened in March 1801

Historical Events

Mar 4 Thomas Jefferson is the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

Mar 7 Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
Mar 8 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
Mar 10 First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately 10 million

Mar 14 Henry Addington becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his friend William Pitt the Younger resigns after being unable to persuade King George III of the need for Catholic Emancipation

Mar 24 Aleksandr Pavlovich Romanov becomes Tsar Alexander I of Russia

Mar 15 Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Dutch chemist and cocoa manufacturer (Dutch process chocolate), born in Amsterdam, Batavian Republic (d. 1887)
Mar 21 Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
Mar 23 Peterus Laurentius Regout, Dutch industrialist (founder of crystal, and pottery firm P. Regout & Co.), born in Maastricht, Dutch Republic (d. 1878)

Mar 14 Christian Friedrich Penzel, German musician and composer, dies at 63
Mar 17 Juan de Sesé y Balaguer, Aragonese composer, dies at 64
Mar 21 Andrea Lucchesi, Italian composer, dies at 59
Mar 23 Tsar Paul I of Russia (1796-1801) is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle aged 46
Mar 25 Anthony Ziesenis, Dutch architect and sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
Mar 25 Novalis [Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg], German romantic writer ('Heinrich von Ofterdingen), dies at 28
Mar 28 Ralph Abercromby, British general (commanded of British forces in West Indies, North Holland and Egypt), dies of his wounds on board the flagship Foudroyantat off the coast of Egypt at 66