1801 in France

"See also:"
1800 in France,
other events of 1801,
1802 in France.

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Events from the year 1801 in France.

Events

*9 February - Treaty of Lunéville signed between the French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire, ending the war with Austria.
*8 March - Battle of Abukir, second battle of the Egyptian campaign. British victory.
*18 March - Treaty of Florence signed between France and the Kingdom of Naples.
*21 March - Treaty of Aranjuez signed between France and Spain.
*21 March - Battle of Alexandria. British victory.
*8 July - First Battle of Algeciras Bay. Franco-Spanish victory.
*12 July - Second Battle of Algeciras Bay. British victory.
*18 July - Concordat of 1801, agreement signed between France and Pope Pius VII that reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restored some of its civil status.
*17 August - Siege of Alexandria by the British begins.
*2 September - Siege of Alexandria ends in British victory.
*29 September - Treaty of Madrid signed between between John VI of Portugal and France.
*First census in France.
*Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a loom where the pattern being woven was controlled by punch cards.

Births

*14 January - Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, botanist (d.1876).
*1 February - Émile Littré, lexicographer and philosopher (d.1881).
*6 February - Laure Cinti-Damoreau, soprano (d.1863).
*22 February - Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (d.1873).
*11 March - Frédéric Berat, poet and songwriter (d.1855).
*8 April - Eugène Burnouf, orientalist (d.1852).
*24 April - Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (d.1880).
*30 April - André Giroux, photographer and painter (d.1879).
*11 May - Henri Labrouste, architect (d.1875).
*15 May - Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist (d.1869).
*30 June - Frédéric Bastiat, writer and political economist (d.1850).
*23 July - Charles Rohault de Fleury, architect (d.1875).
*28 August - Antoine Augustin Cournot, economist, philosopher and mathematician (d.1877).
*6 October - Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (d.1888).
*27 December - Étienne Joseph Louis Garnier-Pagès, politician (d.1841).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue, historian and biographer (d.1872).
*Carron du Villards, ophthalmologist (d.1860).
*Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, politician (d.1845).
*Amédée Fauré, painter (d.1878).

Deaths

*11 January - Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries, Marshal of France (b.1727).
*7 April - Noël François de Wailly, grammarian and lexicographer (b.1724).
*11 April - Antoine de Rivarol, writer and epigrammatist (b.1753).
*7 September - Antoine de Sartine, statesman (b.1729).
*3 October - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b.1724).

Full date unknown

*David Charpentier de Cossigny, Governor General of Pondicherry, Réunion and Mauritius (b.1740).
*Jean Darcet, chemist and porcelain maker (b.1724).
*Charles-Albert Demoustier, writer (b.1760).

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