Timeline December 1800

Events in December 1800 7

• 1718 – 1800 Hugh Blair (1718-1800) Died 27 December 1800, aged 82 Blair was a minister and professor of rhetoric in Edinburgh and a figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. His Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres were a standard textbook in Britain and America for decades. His published sermons were also widely read.
• 1718 – 1800 Hugh Blair (1718-1800) Died 27 December 1800, aged 82 Blair was a minister and professor of rhetoric in Edinburgh and a figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. His Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres were a standard textbook in Britain and America for decades. His published sermons were also widely read.
• 1800 Battle of Hohenlinden French army crushes Austrian forces in Bavaria General Jean-Victor Moreau led a French army to a decisive victory over Archduke John of Austria's forces near Hohenlinden in Bavaria. The defeat forced Austria to seek peace, leading to the Treaty of Luneville the following February. It effectively ended the War of the Second Coalition on the continent.
• 1800 US presidential election of 1800 Electoral tie between Jefferson and Burr triggers a constitutional crisis Thomas Jefferson and his running mate Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, an unintended tie caused by the era's voting rules, throwing the contest into the House of Representatives. The bitter campaign marked the first peaceful transfer of power between opposing political parties in the young republic. The House would resolve the deadlock in Jefferson's favor in February 1801.
• 1800 Second League of Armed Neutrality Russia, Prussia, Sweden and Denmark unite against British naval searches Russia and Sweden signed a convention reviving the League of Armed Neutrality, soon joined by Denmark and Prussia, to resist Britain's practice of searching neutral ships for contraband during the war with France. Tsar Paul I was its chief instigator. The league collapsed the following year after a British fleet attacked Copenhagen and Paul was assassinated.
• 1800 Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise Royalist bomb plot fails to kill Napoleon Royalist conspirators detonated a bomb in a parked cart along Napoleon's route to the Paris Opera, missing him but killing several bystanders and damaging nearby buildings. Napoleon used the attack as a pretext to deport dozens of Jacobin opponents, even though the plot had been royalist in origin. It was one of several assassination attempts he survived as First Consul.
• 1800 – 1860 Charles Goodyear (1800-1860) Died 1 July 1860, aged 59 Charles Goodyear was an American inventor who developed the vulcanization process that made rubber commercially durable and usable. His discovery, patented in 1844, transformed manufacturing but left him financially ruined by litigation and debt. He died in New York City on 1 July 1860.