Page 3: Historical Events In 1800

Jul 09   Mt Vernon Gardens is recorded as becoming site of inaugural summer theatre in US.   

Jul 10   The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.   

Aug 03   Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63   

Aug 06   Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)   

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).   

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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,