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See also:	History of the United States (1789–1849) Timeline of the American Revolution List of years in the United States

Events from the year1800 in the United States.

• President:John Adams (F-Massachusetts)
• Vice President:Thomas Jefferson (DR-Virginia)
• Chief Justice:Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Theodore Sedgwick (F-Massachusetts)
• Congress:6th

• January 7 – TheVirginia General Assembly adopts theReport of 1800, a resolution drafted byJames Madison arguing for thesovereignty of the individualstates under theUnited States Constitution and against theAlien and Sedition Acts.
• April – Voting begins in the1800 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 theNorthwest Territory.
• May 21 – PresidentJohn Adams issues general amnesty for thePennsylvania Dutch farmers who participated inFries's Rebellion.
• July 4 –Indiana Territory is effective.
• July 10 –Connecticut cedes itsWestern Reserve (a strip in present-day northeasternOhio) to the federal government, which adds it to theNorthwest Territory.
• August 4 – The2nd United States Census is conducted. It finds 5,308,483 people living in the U.S. of which 893,602 areslaves.
• August 30 –Gabriel Prosser'sslave revolt inRichmond, 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 – TheConvention of 1800, or Treaty of Mortefontaine, is signed betweenFrance and the United States of America, ending theQuasi-War.
• October 1 – In theThird Treaty of San Ildefonso,Spain returnsLouisiana toFrance.
• November 1
  • U.S. PresidentJohn Adams becomes the firstpresident of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed theWhite House).
  • Middlebury College is granted its charter by theVermont General Assembly.
• November 17 – TheU.S. Congress holds its firstWashington, D.C. session.

• Quasi-War (1798–1800)
• Presidency of John Adams (March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801)

• "Parson" Weems'A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington.
• William Russell Birch'sBirch's Views of Philadelphia

• January 7 –Millard Fillmore, 13thpresident of the United States from 1850 till 1853, 12thvice president of the United States from 1849 till 1850. (died in1874)
• February 14 –Emory Washburn, 22ndGovernor of Massachusetts (died1877)
• February 21 –John H. Winder, careerUnited States Army officer, laterConfederate general officer (died1865)
• February 26 –Lucius Lyon, United States Senator from Michigan from 1843 till 1845. (died1851)
• March 14 –James Bogardus, inventor and architect (died1874)
• May 9 –John Brown, abolitionist (died1859)
• July 15 –Sidney Breese, United States Senator from Illinois from 1843 till 1849. (died1878)
• August 6 –Catharine Beecher, educator (died1878)
• August 21 –Hiram Walden,United States Representative fromNew York (died1880)
• August 22 –William S. Harney,United States Army Brigadier General (died1889)
• September 11 –Daniel S. Dickinson,United States Senator from New York (died1866)
• October 2 –Nat Turner, leader of slave rebellion (died1831)
• October 3 –George Bancroft, historian (died1891)
• October 27 –Benjamin Wade,United States Senator fromOhio (died1878)
• October 30 –David Meriwether, United States Senator from Kentucky in 1852. (died1893)
• December 29 –Charles Goodyear, inventor (died1860)
• Eliza Seymour Lee, pastry chef and restaurateur (died1874)

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• January 13 –Dempsey Burges, Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (born1751)
• January 20 –Thomas Mifflin major general in the Continental Army,President of the Continental Congress, signatory of theContinental Association (born1744)
• January 23 –Edward Rutledge, statesman (born1749)
• February 2 –James C. Jarvis, United States Navy officer (born1787)
• March 21 –William Blount, politician (born1749)
• July 23 –John Rutledge, 2ndChief Justice of the United States (born1739)
• August 24 –Rawlins Lowndes, lawyer and jurist (born1721)
• 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 theContinental Army and politician (born1727)
• November 30 –Charles Adams, second son of John Adams, the 2nd president of the United States (born1770)
• December 17 –William Peery, farmer, and lawyer (born1743)
• Chief Blackbird, Omaha leader (born c. 1750)

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