Page 3: Historical Events In 1800

Aug 30   Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia   

Sep 05   Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops   

Sep 07   Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)   

Sep 13   Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803).   

Sep 16   Jozef Nowakowski, composer.   

Sep 17   Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874   

Sep 19   William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865   

Sep 23   William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)   

Sep 29   Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71.   

Oct 01   Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty   

Oct 01   U.S. Schooner Experiment captures French Schooner Diana.   

Oct 02   Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831).   

Oct 03   George Bancroft, historian (Hall of Fame)   

Oct 07   Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged   

Oct 17   Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England   

Oct 25   Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet/historian (Ivry, Naaseby).   

Oct 26   Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-fieldmarshal   

Oct 27   Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC (Union), died in 1878.   

Nov 01   1st president to live in white house (John Adams).   

Nov 01   John Adams is the inaugural President to live in the White House   

Nov 04   Eduard Brendler, composer.   

Nov 06   Eduard Grell, composer.   

Nov 14   Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer   

Nov 15   George Rodwell, composer   

Nov 17   Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building   

Nov 17   Congress held inaugural session in Washington DC   

Nov 17   The United States Congress meets for the inaugural time.   

Nov 23   Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)   

Nov 24   Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg   

Dec 03   France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici).   

Dec 04   Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen).   

Dec 12   Washington DC established as capital of US   

Dec 17   Gergely Czuczor, Hung/Czech poet/translator (Great Hung dictionary).   

Dec 19   Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66.   

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Jan 01   Sydney nelson: Composer   

Jan 06   Willem a schimmelpenninck van der oye: Dutch politician   

Jan 07   Millard fillmore: Locke ny, (whig) 13th president (1850-53)   

Jan 11   Ányos jedlik: Hungarian physicist    

Jan 14   Ludwig alois ferdinand köchel: Austrian musicologist    

Jan 22   Nat turner: Slave that revolted [or oct 2]   

Jan 24   Edwin chadwick: British social reformer   

Feb 11   William henry fox talbot: Wiltshire england, photographic pioneer   

Jan 01   Louis j m daubenton: France, zoologist,   

Jan 06   William jones: Composer,    

Jan 09   Jean Étienne championnet: French general (b. 1762)   

Jan 10   Johan wikmanson: Composer,    

Jan 23   Edward rutledge: Us attorney (signed decl of indep),   

Feb 23   Joseph warton: English literary critic (b. 1722)   

Mar 02   Christian friedrich schale: Composer,   

Mar 03   Johann baptist christoph toeschi: Composer,