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1802

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s
Years:	1799 1800 1801 - 1802 - 1803 1804 1805

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Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works 1 Events of 1802 1.1 January – March 1.2 April – June 1.3 July – September 1.4 October – December 1.5 Undated 1.6 Ongoing events 2 Births 2.1 January – June 2.2 July – December 3 Deaths 3.1 January – June 3.2 July – December

Events of 1802

January – March

March 16 – United States Military Academy of West Point is established.
March 25/27 – The Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
March 28 – H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas.

April – June

April 26 – A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allows all but about 1,000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that ultimately consolidates his own rule.
May 19 – Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
May 20 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
June 2 – Indigenous Australian Pemulwuy, a leader of the resistance to European settlement of Australia, is shot dead by Henry Hacking.
June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux for prison.

July – September

July – Eleuthère Irénée du Pont founds E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the modern DuPont Company.
July 4 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
August 2 – In a plebiscite, Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as the First Consul.
5 July to 28 August – A general election in the United Kingdom brings victory for the Tories, led by Henry Addington.
September 3 – William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge.
September 11 – The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of the French First Republic.

October – December

October 2 – War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
October – The French army enters Switzerland.

Undated

Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
Treviranus uses the term biology for the first time.
Thomas Wedgwood produces the world's first photograph, but has no means of fixing the image, which quickly fades.
William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas.
Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
The English Parliament forbids pauper apprentices.
Nguyen Dynasty starts to rule in Vietnam.

Ongoing events

French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

1802 in other calendars

1802
MDCCCII

2555

1251
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-42 – -41

2752

2346

1164

7310 – 7311

辛酉年十一月廿七日
(4438/4498-11-27)

— to —

壬戌年十二月初七日
(4439/4499-12-7)

1518 – 1519

1794 – 1795

–

- Vikram Samvat

1857 – 1858

- Shaka Samvat

1724 – 1725

- Kali Yuga

4903 – 4904

11802

1180 – 1181

1216 – 1217

Kansei 14Kyōwa 1
(享和元年)

Korean calendar

4135

Thai solar calendar

2345

January 3 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British politician (d. 1898)

February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist author (d. 1880)

February 19 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)

February 26 – Victor Hugo, French author (d. 1885)

March 7 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter (d. 1873)

April 4 – Dorothea Dix, American activist (d. 1887)

May 2 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)

June 23 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)

July – December

July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French author (d. 1870)
July 26 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
August 5 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (d. 1894)
October 31 – Benoît Fourneyron, French engineer (d. 1867)
November 9 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
November 19 – Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
December 15 – Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
December 23 – Sara Coleridge, British scholar (d. 1852)

See also Category: 1802 births.

Deaths

January – June

February 2 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
February 3 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (b. 1723)
February 26 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
June 4 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b. 1751)

July – December

August 10 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher (b. 1724)
September 26 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and soldier (b. 1754)
November 9 – Thomas Girtin, English artist (b. 1775)
November 15 – George Romney, English artist (b. 1734)
November 16 – André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbot, English portrait painter (b. 1716)
July 22 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)

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