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The White House South Facade[/caption]
In the year 1800, Alessandro Volta describes his new invention, the chemical battery (Mar 20), Napoleon and his French army begin crossing the Alps (May 15), smallpox vaccine, in existence since 1796, is first used in North America (Jun 2), assent is given to unite the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland (Aug 1), Spain returns Louisiana to France in exchange for the Tuscany area of Italy (Oct 1), John Adams becomes the first U.S. president to live in the White House (Nov 1) - and all these fine people were born:
1800-0101 Salome Sellers* last known surviving person from the 18th century - Deer Isle, MA USA (1909/109) 1800-0104 Martha Christina Tiahahu* Moluccan freedom fighter/National Heroine of Indonesia - Santiago de Abúbu, Nusalaut Island, Dutch East Indies (1818/17) 1800-0107 Millard Fillmore* politician/13usp - Summerhill, NY USA (1874/74) 1800-0111 Ányos Jedlik* Benedictine priest/engineer/inventor (dynamo) - Szimő, Kingdom of Hungary (1895/95) 1800-0114 Ludwig Ritter von Küchel* musicologist/ composer/publisher - Stein, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (145 (1877/77) 1800-0120 1800-0122 Christoph Merian* banker/ businessman/landowner - Basel, Helvetic Republic (1858/58) 1800-0131 1800-0206 Achille Devéria* painter/ lithographer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1857/57) 1800-0207 1800-0209 Hyrum Smith* Mormon leader/brother of Joseph Smith - Tunbridge, VT USA (1844/44) 1800-0209 Joseph von Führich* Austrian painter (religious themes)/draughtsman - Kratzau, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1876/76) 1800-0210 1800-0215 Frederik Willem Conrad* civil engineer/railway pioneer - Spaarndam, Netherlands (1870/69) 1800-0219 Émilie Gamelin* canonized social worker/sister- Montreal, Canada, Kingdom of Great Britain (1851/51) 1800-0223 William Jardine* ornithologist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1874/74) 1800-0228 1800-0301 1800-0302 Yevgeny Baratynsky* poet - Vyazhlya, Russian Empire (1844/44) 1800-0303 Heinrich Georg Bronn* geologist/paleontologist - Ziegelhausen, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire 1800-0313 Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha* diplomat/ statesman/reformer - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1858/57) 1800-0316 Emperor Ninkō* 仁孝天皇 the 120th Emperor of Japan/while political power still resided with the Shōgun, the beginnings of the Bakumatsu were at hand - Kyoto (1846/45) 1800-0325 Alexis Paulin Paris* scholar/ author - Avenay, Kingdom of France (1881/80) 1800-0331 1800-0401 1800-0404 Adolf Fredrik Munck* senator - Vihti, Sweden-Finland (1886/85) 1800-0413 Kaisa Gabrielintytär Pekkalainen** married to Risto Antinpoika Vaittinen - Tervajoki, Viipurin msrk, Sweden-Finland (18xx) 1800-0416 Jakob Heine* German orthopaedist - Lauterbach, Schwarzwald, Holy Roman Empire (1879/79) 1800-0419 Hiram Cronk* soldier/ shoemaker/the last surviving veteran of the War of 1812 - Frankfort, NY USA (1905/105) 1800-0420 1800-0426 Elizabeth Sinclair* farmer/plantation owner/ purchased the island Ni’ihau from the Kingdom of Hawaii for $10,000 - Glasgow, Scotland (1892/92) 1800-0430 1800-0501 James Black* blacksmith/ knifemaker best known for his improvements to the Bowie knife - Hackensack, NJ USA (1872/72) 1800-0505 Louis Christophe François Hachette* book publisher - Rethel, Kingdom of France (1864/64) 1800-0509 John Brown* abolitionist - Torrington, CT USA (1859/59) 1800-0509 Samuel Carter Hall* journalist/spiritualist - Waterford, Ireland (1889/88) 1800-0510 Charles Knowlton* physician/atheist/writer - Templeton, MA USA (1850/49) 1800-0519 George Washington Whistler* civil engineer/designer of steam locomotives - Fort Wayne, Indiana (1849/48) 1800-0520 1800-0530 Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach* German geometer - Jena, Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (1834/33) 1800-0601 Charles Fremantle* renowned British Royal Navy officer - England (1869/68) 1800-0610 1800-0617 William Parsons* astronomer/ builder of telescopes - York, England (1867/67) 1800-0620 1800-0623 Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer* German actress/playwright/theater director - Stuttgart (1868/68) 1800-0623 Karol Marcinkowski* Polish physician/social activist - Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (1846/46) 1800-0630 Richard Bethell* lawyer/ politician/Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain - Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England (1873/73) 1800-0701 1800-0715 Sidney Breese* soldier/ lawyer/an early Illinois pioneer - Whitesboro, NY USA (1878/77) 1800-0721 Constance Trotti* Belgian salonniére/culture patron - Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1871/70) 1800-0722 Jakob Lorber* Christian mystic/visionary/promoter of liberal Universalism - Kanischa, Duchy of Styria, Holy Roman Empire (1864/64) 1800-0724 Henry Shaw* botanist/ philanthropist/Missouri - Sheffield, England (1889/89) 1800-0729 George Bradshaw* cartographer/ timetable publisher - Pendleton, Lancashire, England (1853/53) 1800-0731 Friedrich Wöhler* chemist - Eschersheim, Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1882/82) 1800-0801 1800-0808 Aurora Järnefelt* mother of the senator and governor Alexander Järnefelt - Ilomantsi, Sweden-Finland (1868/67) 1800-0812 Jean-Jacques Ampére* philologist/man of letters/son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère - Lyon, France (1864/63) 1800-0820 Bernhard Heine* German physician/bone specialist/inventor of the osteotome - Schramberg, Schwarzwald, Holy Roman Empire (1846/45) 1800-0831 1800-0901 Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli* Italian naturalist - Milan, Cisalpine Republic (1874/84) 1800-0905 Gottlieb Bindesbøll* Danish architect - Ledøje, Denmark-Norway (1856/55) 1800-0906 Catharine Beecher* educator/ supporter of kindergarten/daughter of Lyman Beecher – East Hampton, NY USA (1878/77) 1800-0909 Carl Gustaf Söderstrand* painter/educator active in Turku - Sweden-Finland (1862/61) 1800-0920 1800-0922 George Bentham* botanist - Stoke Damerel, Plymouth, England (1884/83) 1800-0930 Decimus Burton* architect/urban designer - Bloomsbury, London, England (1881/81) 1800-1001 Kustaa Nummelin* (b Hyrkkö) pickpocket/ horsethief/burgler - Nousiainen, Sweden-Finland (1836/35) 1800-1014 John Hogan* sculptor - Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland (1858/57) 1800-1023 Henri Milne-Edwards* eminent French zoologist - Bruges, French First Republic (1885/84) 1800-1027 Viktor Hartwall* entrepreneur/ soda manufacturer - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1857/56) 1800-1028 Carl Gustaf Wolff* merchant/ shipowner/statesman - Noormarkku, Sweden-Finland (1868/67) 1800-1101 Ferdinand Flocon* journalist/ politician - Paris, Kingdom of France (1866/65) 1800-1104 Eduard Brendler* Swedish flutist/composer/to Sweden at age 1 - Dresden, Saxony (1831/30) 1800-1121 Barney Aaron* boxer - Aldgate, London, England (1859/58) 1800-1130 Carl Heinrich Edmund von Berg* German forestry socentist - Göttingen, Lower Saxony (1874/73) 1800-1201 1800-1202 France Prešeren* Slovene poet - Vrba, Carniola, Habsburg monarchy (1849/48) 1800-1210 1800-1219 Assar Lindeblad* priest/ poet - Lackalänga, Kingdom of Sweden (1848/47) 1800-1225 John Phillips* geologist/ publisher of the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata - Marden, Wiltshire, England (1874/73) 1800-1226 Paul Curtis* shipbuilder - Scituate, MA USA (1873/72) 1800-1229 Charles Goodyear* chemist/inventor of vulcanized rubber - New Haven, CT USA (1860/59) 1800-1231 1800-0 1800-0 1800-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here