Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

* 1801 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor ( d. 1843 )

* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

* 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician ( d. 1876 )

* Alexander I of Russia ( 1801 – 1825 ), Emperor of Russia

* 1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British capture the Danish fleet.

** April 1798 – November 1801 Jakob Emmanuel Feer ( b. 1754 – d. 1833 )

* 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist ( d. 1801 )

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

* Frédéric Bastiat ( 1801 – 1850 ), classical-liberal author and political economist

#* Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )

#** Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte ( 1803 – 1857 ), ornithologist and politician married Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte ( 1801 – 1854 )

#* Prince Achille Murat ( 1801 – 1847 ), married Catherine Willis Gray ( 1803 – 1867 ), great-grandniece of George Washington.

Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

* 2 Kings of Etruria ( 1801 – 1807 )

** Louis ( 1801 – 1803 )

The first four censuses ( 1801 – 1831 ) were mainly headcounts and contained little personal information.

His father, Antoine Certain de Canrobert, Knight of Saint Louis, was the scion of a relatively obscure family whose grandfather had been ennobled in 1738 ( the senior branch of the family, extinct in 1918, used the surname " Certain de La Meschaussée "): he became a Royalist émigré and consequently his few properties were confiscated during the French Revolution and he was even briefly imprisoned in the Temple in 1801.

* Antoine Xavier Natal ( 1733 – 1801 ), brigadier during the French Revolution

Antoine de Rivarol ( 26 June 1753 – 11 April 1801 ) was a Royalist French writer during the Revolutionary era.

He collected a great many new specimens in 1801 and 1802, though Baudin's journal suggests that he did not work particularly hard ; apparently the poorly educated gardener's boy Antoine Guichenot collected more plant specimens than Leschenault did, and gave them more useful labels.

Antoine Augustin Cournot ( 28 August 1801 – 31 March 1877 ) was a French philosopher and mathematician.

It is named after Antoine Augustin Cournot ( 1801 – 1877 ) who was inspired by observing competition in a spring water duopoly.

His letters to the comte de Caylus were published by Antoine Serieys as Un voyage en Italie ( 1801 ), and his letters to Mme du Deffand, with whom he was on intimate terms, in the ( 1866 ), edited by the marquis de Sainte-Aulaire.

Christophe Antoine Gerle ( 1736-c. 1801 ), French revolutionist and mystic, was born at Riom in Auvergne.

Some writers, such as Augustin Barruel and John Robison, even claimed that the Illuminati were behind the French Revolution, a claim that Jean-Joseph Mounier dismissed in his 1801 book On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati on the Revolution of France.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

In 1801 the demoralised remains of the French army in Egypt were defeated by a British Expeditionary Force ; the Royal Navy used their dominance in the Mediterranean to invade Egypt without the fear of ambush while anchored off the Egyptian coast.

He starred in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island, occupied by the French in 1801.

After the defeat of the French forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the British army and presented to the British Museum in 1803.

The French occupation was short-lived as British and Ottoman forces, including a sizable Albanian contingent, recaptured the country in 1801.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

The Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and the Church ended the de-Christianization period and established the rules for a relationship between the Catholic Church and the French State that lasted until it was abrogated by the Third Republic via the separation of church and state on 11 December 1905.

While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.

* 1801 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.

* 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery.

* 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

Lettres de cachet were abolished after the French Revolution by the Constituent Assembly, but Napoleon reestablished their penal equivalent by a political measure in the decree of 8 March 1801 on the state prisons.

* 1801 – Henri Labrouste, French architect ( d. 1875 )

* 1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman ( b. 1801 )

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

* 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.

Although the British surrendered claims to mainland Normandy, France, and other French possessions in 1801, the monarch of the United Kingdom retains the title Duke of Normandy in respect to the Channel Islands.

The British monarch is understood to not be the Duke with regards to mainland Normandy described herein, by virtue of the Treaty of Paris of 1259, the surrender of French possessions in 1801, and the belief that the rights of succession to that title are subject to Salic Law which excludes inheritance through female heirs.

* In 1801, James Anderson criticized the French for basing the Metric system on decimal arithmetic.

* 1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman ( d. 1888 )