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| 1801 |
| | British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later | |
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| 1801 |
| | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
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| 1801 |
| | Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII | |
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| 1801 |
| | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
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| 1801 |
| | The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million | |
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| 1801 |
| | A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders | |
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| 1801 |
| | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
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| 1802 |
| | The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours | |
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| 1802 |
| | Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison | |
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| 1802 |
| | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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