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U.S.-related events during the year 1800
Events from the year 1800 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] 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 .
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November 17 – The U.S. Congress holds its first Washington, D.C. session. Ongoing [ edit ] Publications [ edit ] 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 )
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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 )
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