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.

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

** 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.

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.

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

As a result the pasha of Tripoli declared war on the United States on May 10, 1801 and the First Barbary War began.

* The First Barbary War ( 1801 – 1805 ) is fought between the United States and the Barbary States of North Africa.

He was doomed, however, to disturbance in his studies, first from the death of his mother, next from his inveterate tendency towards poetry, and finally from the First Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801, which, however, inspired a dramatic sketch ( April the Second 1801 ) which is the first thing of the kind by Oehlenschläger that we possess.

But the British attacked and captured or destroyed large portions of the Dano-Norwegian fleet in the First Battle of Copenhagen ( 2 April 1801 ), and again in the Second Battle of Copenhagen ( August – September 1807 ).

First established as a shipbuilding facility in 1801, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70, 000 people at its peak during World War II and was then the largest employer in the borough.

During The First Session of the Second Territorial General Assembly, held in Chillicothe from November 23, 1801 to January 23, 1802, the General Assembly passed an act establishing the " American Western University " at Athens.

* Constituencies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( 1801 – 1922 ) and First Dáil 1918

The U. S. paid protection money until 1801, when President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay and sent in the Navy to challenge the Barbary States, the First Barbary War followed.

This drew down the wrath of the First French Republic on the archbishop-elector ; in 1794, Coblenz was taken by the French Revolutionary army under Marceau ( who was killed during the siege ), and, after the signing of the Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ) it was made the capital of the new French départment of Rhin-et-Moselle.

In 1801, First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte took the presidency of the French Academy of Sciences and appointed Delambre its Permanent Secretary for the Mathematical Sciences, a post he held until his death.

When the restoration of the Roman Catholic religion was in the mind of the First Consul, Fesch resumed his clerical vocation and took an active part in the complex negotiations which led to the signing of the Concordat with the Holy See on July 15, 1801.

William Pitt the Younger, who made it his home for twenty years — longer than any First Lord before or since — from 1783 to 1801 and from 1804 to 1806, referred to it as " My vast, awkward house.

The French Revolutionary Wars are usually divided between those of the First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ) and the Second Coalition ( 1798 – 1801 ).

First discovered in 1801 in Mexico, vanadinite deposits have since been unearthed in South America, Europe, Africa, and in other parts of North America.

The First Barbary War ( 1801 – 1805 ), also known as the Tripolitan War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Berber Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States.

* First Barbary War ( 1801 – 1805 ), fought between the United States and the Barbary States

After the First Barbary War ( 1801 – 1805 ), the U. S. found its attention diverted to its worsening relationship with Great Britain over trade with France, which culminated in the War of 1812.

The problems with the Barbary states had never gone away, and on 10 May 1801 the Tripolitans declared war on the United States by chopping down the flag in front of the American Embassy, which began the First Barbary War.

He was offered command during the First Barbary War in 1801 but refused, settling firmly into retirement.

Bombardment of Algiers ( 1816 ) | Bombardment of Algiers on August 1816 by the History of the Royal Navy | British Royal Navy, commanded by Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth | Lord Exmouth and painted by Thomas Luny. Conflicts between the Barbary States and the newly independent United States of America culminated in the First ( 1801 – 1805 ) and Second ( 1815 ) Barbary Wars.