1801

Discovery of the element Columbium called later Niobium (Hatchett)

Traité de minéralogie (Treatise on Mineralogy) by René-Just Haüy

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1 January 1801 discovery of 1 Ceres

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16 June 1801 Birth of Julius Plücker

27 July 1801, Birth of George Biddell Airy in Alnwick, Northumberland, England

19 September 1801 Death of Johann Gottfried Köhler in Dresden, Germany

Chronology

1800 - 1801 - 1802

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