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U.S.-related events during the year 1800
Events from the year 1800 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
September 30:
Treaty of Mortefontaine signed
January 7 – The
Virginia General Assembly adopts the
Report of 1800 , a resolution drafted by
James Madison arguing for the
sovereignty of the individual
states under the
United States Constitution and against the
Alien and Sedition Acts .
April – Voting begins in the
1800 United States presidential election ; it will last until October. The result is not announced until February 1801.
April 24 – The U.S.
Library of Congress is founded.
May 7 –
Indiana Territory is formed by an Act of Congress as the first new territory created from the lands of the
Northwest Territory .
May 21 – President
John Adams issues general amnesty for the
Pennsylvania Dutch farmers who participated in
Fries's Rebellion .
July 4 –
Indiana Territory is effective.
July 10 –
Connecticut cedes its
Western Reserve (a strip in present-day northeastern
Ohio ) to the federal government, which adds it to the
Northwest Territory .
August 4 – The
2nd United States Census is conducted. It finds 5,308,483 people living in the U.S. of which 893,602 are
slaves .
August 30 –
Gabriel Prosser 's
slave revolt in
Richmond, Virginia is postponed due to weather. Word of his plan reaches Virginia's governor,
James Monroe , who calls in the state militia. Gabriel is later captured and hanged on October 10 along with 23 other slaves.
September 30 – The
Convention of 1800 , or Treaty of Mortefontaine, is signed between
France and the United States of America, ending the
Quasi-War .
October 1 – In the
Third Treaty of San Ildefonso ,
Spain returns
Louisiana to
France .
November 1
November 17 – The
U.S. Congress holds its first
Washington, D.C. session.
Ongoing
Publications
Births
Millard Fillmore
January 7 –
Millard Fillmore , 13th
president of the United States from 1850 till 1853, 12th
vice president of the United States from 1849 till 1850. (died in
1874 )
February 14 –
Emory Washburn , 22nd
Governor of Massachusetts (died
1877 )
February 21 –
John H. Winder , career
United States Army officer, later
Confederate general officer (died
1865 )
February 26 –
Lucius Lyon , United States Senator from Michigan from 1843 till 1845. (died
1851 )
March 14 –
James Bogardus , inventor and architect (died
1874 )
May 9 –
John Brown , abolitionist (died
1859 )
July 15 –
Sidney Breese , United States Senator from Illinois from 1843 till 1849. (died
1878 )
August 6 –
Catharine Beecher , educator (died
1878 )
August 21 –
Hiram Walden ,
United States Representative from
New York (died
1880 )
August 22 –
William S. Harney ,
United States Army Brigadier General (died
1889 )
September 11 –
Daniel S. Dickinson ,
United States Senator from New York (died
1866 )
October 2 –
Nat Turner , leader of slave rebellion (died
1831 )
October 3 –
George Bancroft , historian (died
1891 )
October 27 –
Benjamin Wade ,
United States Senator from
Ohio (died
1878 )
October 30 –
David Meriwether , United States Senator from Kentucky in 1852. (died
1893 )
December 29 –
Charles Goodyear , inventor (died
1860 )
Eliza Seymour Lee , pastry chef and restaurateur (died
1874 )
Deaths
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(November 2011 )
January 13 –
Dempsey Burges , Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (born
1751 )
January 20 –
Thomas Mifflin major general in the Continental Army,
President of the Continental Congress , signatory of the
Continental Association (born
1744 )
January 23 –
Edward Rutledge , statesman (born
1749 )
February 2 –
James C. Jarvis , United States Navy officer (born
1787 )
March 21 –
William Blount , politician (born
1749 )
July 23 –
John Rutledge , 2nd
Chief Justice of the United States (born
1739 )
August 24 –
Rawlins Lowndes , lawyer and jurist (born
1721 )
August 27 –
John Barnwell , soldier and public official (born 1748)
August 31 –
John Blair Jr. , American Founding Father (born 1732)
September 26 –
William Billings , choral composer (1746)
October 7 –
Henry Babcock , colonial American military officer (born 1736)
October 10 –
Gabriel Prosser , slave revolt leader (born 1776)
October 28 –
Artemas Ward , Major General of the
Continental Army and politician (born
1727 )
November 30 –
Charles Adams , second son of John Adams, the 2nd president of the United States (born
1770 )
December 17 –
William Peery , farmer, and lawyer (born
1743 )
Chief Blackbird , Omaha leader (born c. 1750)
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