1801 in France

Events from the year 1801 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

9 February â Treaty of LunÃ©ville signed between the French First Republic and the Holy Roman Empire, ending the war with Austria.
8 March â Battle of Abukir, second battle of the Egyptian campaign. British victory.
18 March â Treaty of Florence signed between France and the Kingdom of Naples.^[2]
21 March - Treaty of Aranjuez signed between France and Spain.
21 March - Battle of Alexandria. British victory.
8 July â First Battle of Algeciras Bay. Franco-Spanish victory.
12 July â Second Battle of Algeciras Bay. British victory.
15 July â Concordat of 1801, agreement signed between France and Pope Pius VII that reaffirms the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and restores some of its civil status.
17 August â Siege of Alexandria by the British begins.
2 September â Siege of Alexandria ends in British victory.
29 September â Treaty of Madrid signed between John VI of Portugal and France.
September â Metric system obligatory throughout France.
First census in France.
Joseph Marie Jacquard develops a loom where the pattern being woven is controlled by punched cards.

14 January â Adolphe-ThÃ©odore Brongniart, botanist (died 1876)
1 February â Ãmile LittrÃ©, lexicographer and philosopher (died 1881)
6 February â Laure Cinti-Damoreau, soprano (died 1863)
22 February â Marc Girardin, politician and man of letters (died 1873)
11 March â FrÃ©dÃ©ric Berat, poet and songwriter (died 1855)
8 April â EugÃ¨ne Burnouf, orientalist (died 1852)
24 April â Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, statesman and Peer of France (died 1880)
30 April â AndrÃ© Giroux, photographer and painter (died 1879)
11 May â Henri Labrouste, architect (died 1875)
15 May â Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet, geologist and metallurgist (died 1869)
30 June â FrÃ©dÃ©ric Bastiat, writer and political economist (died 1850)
23 July â Charles Rohault de Fleury, architect (died 1875)
28 August â Antoine Augustin Cournot, economist, philosopher and mathematician (died 1877)
6 October â Hippolyte Carnot, statesman (died 1888)
27 December â Ãtienne Joseph Louis Garnier-PagÃ¨s, politician (died 1841)