1801

Events

 * January 1:
 * Samuel Dexter becomes United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * January 10:
 * William Harrison becomes Governor of Indiana
 * March 4:
 * Thomas Jefferson becomes President of the United States
 * Aaron Burr becomes Vice President of the United States
 * William Hoge becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * William Jones becomes a Member of the House of Representatives
 * May 14:
 * Abraham de Gallatin becomes United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * December 6:
 * Robert Livingston becomes United States Minister of France

Births

 * May 16:
 * William Henry Seward Sr. - United States Secretary of State (d. 1872)

Deaths

 * June 4:
 * Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg - Speaker of the House of Representatives (b. 1750)