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Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1799 1800 1801 – 1802 – 1803 1804 1805

1802 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Sports – Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Contents 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

[edit] Events of 1802

[edit] January–March

• March 16 – Army Corps of Engineers re-established.
• 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.

[edit] April–June

• April 6 – Revenue Commission disbanded.
• 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 1 – Patent and Trademark Office within Department of State
• 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Undated

• Treviranus uses the term biology for the first time.
• Thomas Wedgwood publishes an account of his experiments in photography, along with Humphry Davy. Since they had no means of fixing the image, their photographs quickly faded.
• 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.

[edit] Ongoing events

• French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)
• Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815)

[edit] Births

1802 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1802 MDCCCII
Ab urbe condita	2555
Armenian calendar	1251 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-42 – -41
Bengali calendar	1209
Berber calendar	2752
Buddhist calendar	2346
Burmese calendar	1164
Byzantine calendar	7310 – 7311
Chinese calendar	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)
Coptic calendar	1518 – 1519
Ethiopian calendar	1794 – 1795
Hebrew calendar	5562 – 5563
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1857 – 1858
- Shaka Samvat	1724 – 1725
- Kali Yuga	4903 – 4904
Holocene calendar	11802
Iranian calendar	1180 – 1181
Islamic calendar	1216 – 1217
Japanese calendar	Kansei 14Kyōwa 1 (享和元年)
Korean calendar	4135
Thai solar calendar	2345
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[edit] January–June

• 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)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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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