1800

Events

   * March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII
   * March 21 - Pius VII becomes Pope
   * May 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy
   * June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near
     Marengo, Italy
   * June 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by
     having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
   * September 5 - The island of Malta, that was occupied by the French, is
     conquered by British troops
   * December 3 - Battle of Hohenlinden, the French army defeats the
     Austrian troops.
   * December 24 - An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris
   * Invention of the voltaic pile by Alessandro Volta: the first chemical
     battery
   * The infrared radiation is discovered by Wilhelm Herschel

Births

   * January 7 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States
     1850-1853
   * February 11 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer
   * March 15 - Heinrich von Dechsen, geologist and mineralogist (+ 1889)
   * May 9 - John Brown, American abolitionist (+ 1859)
   * July 31 - Friedrich Wšhler, German chemist
   * October 2 - Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion
   * Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate
   * Emperor Ninko of Japan

Deaths

   * January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist
   * March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist