Page 3: Historical Events In 1801

Jul 12   Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish   

Jul 12   John Hill Hewitt, composer.   

Jul 16   Pope Pius VII and 1st consul Napoleon sign concord   

Jul 20   Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1235 pound cheese ball at his farm   

Jul 26   Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86   

Jul 26   John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867.   

Jul 27   George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal.   

Aug 03   Joseph Paxton, English architect is born.   

Aug 03   Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect (Crystal Palace).   

Aug 10   Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882.   

Aug 21   Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian   

Aug 22   Pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 46   

Aug 24   Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68   

Aug 28   Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot).   

Sep 01   Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies   

Sep 12   Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher   

Sep 17   Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand and 1 Nights)   

Oct 01   England and France signs Preliminary of London   

Oct 07   Adolf Muller, composer.   

Oct 14   Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist (blinded-stared at Sun 25 secs)   

Oct 23   Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer.   

Oct 23   Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60.   

Oct 28   Karl Georg Lickl, composer   

Nov 03   Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books   

Nov 05   Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies.   

Nov 06   Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78.   

Nov 09   Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer, dies at 56.   

Nov 10   Kentucky outlaws dueling.   

Nov 16   1st edition of New York Evening Post   

Nov 16   The New York Post newspaper is founded.   

Nov 27   Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer.   

Dec 07   Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes).   

Dec 11   Grabbe, writer.   

Dec 17   Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia).   

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Jan 11   John Lodge Ellerton, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 21   In the year 1801 birth of ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer   

Jan 29   Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 01   Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer was born in the year 1801.   

Feb 01   On this day in history birth of thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)   

Feb 01   On this day in history birth of Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)   

Feb 07   In the year 1801 birth of john Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist   

Feb 21   In the year 1801 birth of johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer   

Jan 02   On this day in history johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59   

Jan 11   Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51 in the year 1801.   

Feb 07   In the year 1801 death of daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)   

Feb 08   On this day in history johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer, dies at 43   

Mar 14   In the year 1801 christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63   

Mar 17   Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64 in the year 1801.   

Mar 21   In the year 1801 andrea Lucchesi, 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 died in the year 1801.