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   

Jan 21   Ramon vilanova y barrera: Composer   

Jan 29   Johannes bernardus van bree: Dutch violinist/composer (felix meritis)   

Feb 01   Adolf fredrik lindblad: Composer   

Feb 01   Thomas cole: Us, romantic landscape painter (hudson river school)   

Feb 01   Émile littré: French lexicographer   

Feb 07   John rylands: England, merchant/philanthropist   

Feb 21   Johann wenzel kalliwoda: Composer   

Jan 02   Johann c lavater: Swiss vicar/philosopher,    

Jan 11   Domenico cimarosa: Italian composer (matrimonio segreto),    

Feb 07   Daniel chodowiecki: Polish painter (b. 1726)   

Feb 08   Johann chrysostomus drexel: Composer,    

Mar 14   Christian friedrich penzel: Composer,    

Mar 17   Juan de sesse y balaguer: Composer,   

Mar 21   Andrea lucchesi: Composer,    

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