1800 год: основные события и личности

1799 1800 1801

As of March 1 (O. S. February 18), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until February 28 (O. S. February 16), 1900.

July 2 – The Union with Ireland Act 1800 is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain; the Irish Parliament passes similar legislation in the following month, uniting the two kingdoms and abolishing the Parliament of Ireland. July 10 – Fort William College is established by Lord Wellesley, British Governor General of India, in Calcutta, to promote Bengali, Hindi and other vernaculars of the Indian subcontinent. August 1 – King George III gives royal assent to the second Act of Union to unite the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland (both ruled by him) into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, effective on January 1, 1801. August 30 – The plot by African American blacksmith and slave Gabriel Prosser to seize Richmond, Virginia, and guide a slave uprising, is thwarted by a massive downpour on the evening that it is set to begin; two other slaves have revealed Prosser's plans to authorities, who have prepared to follow him to the rendezvous point and arrest the conspirators, so that "neither the geographical extent of the plot nor the number of insurgents in the conspiracy was revealed"; eventually, 25 slaves, including Prosser, will be captured, tried and hanged. September 4 – Siege of Malta (1798–1800): The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops, who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate. September 30 – The Convention of 1800, or Treaty of Mortefontaine, is signed between France and the United States of America, ending the Quasi War.

July 14 – Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (b. 1750)
July 18 – John Rutledge, governor of South Carolina (b. 1739)
August 12 – Anne Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius, French salon holder (b. 1722)
August 16 – Samuel Barrington, English admiral (b. 1729)
August 25 – Elizabeth Montagu, English literary critic (b. 1718)
August 31 – John Blair, American politician (b. 1732)
September 2 – Maciej Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1749)
September 3 –Elżbieta Branicka, Polish szlachta and politician (b. 1734)
September 10 – Johann David Schoepff, German naturalist, doctor (b. 1752)
September 23 – Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1712)
September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746)
September 27 – William Gibbons, American lawyer, revolutionary (b. 1726)
October 4 – Johann Hermann, German physician, naturalist (b. 1738)
October 10 – Gabriel Prosser, American slave revolutionary (b. approx. 1776)
October 16 – Benjamin Huntington, American lawyer, politician (b. 1736)
October 28 – Artemas Ward, American Major General in the American Revolutionary War, Congressman from Massachusetts (b. 1727)
October 29 – Koide Ichijūrō, kabuki composer and performer (b. date unknown)
November 5 – Jesse Ramsden, English astronomical instrument maker (b. 1735)
November 14 – François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, French general (b. 1739)
November 25 – Francisco Bouligny, former military governor of Spanish Louisiana (b. 1736)
November 30 – Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, English eccentric nobleman (b. 1712)
December – Jean Baptiste Audebert, French artist, naturalist (b. 1759)
December 7 – Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Hessian Lieutenant General (b. 1716)
December 27 – Hugh Blair, Scottish Presbyterian preacher, man of letters (b. 1718)
December 30 – Thomas Dimsdale, English physician, banker (b. 1712)

Marie Louise Adélaïde Boizot, French engraver (b. 1744)