1801

Events

January 1 - Legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed
January 1 - The first (and largest) asteroid Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi
April 2 - First Battle of Copenhagen. Armed Neutrality of the North dissolved.
May - The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States of America by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard developed a loom where the pattern being woven was controlled by punch cards.
Thomas Jefferson succeeds John Adams as the President of the United States of America

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