1802

Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

Years: 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 - 1802 - 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807

Events

• March 16 - West Point is established
• March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition
• March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas
• May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur ("legion of honour")
• July 4 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
• August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for a lifetime
• September 11 - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of Napoleonic France
• October 2 - War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
• October - French army enters Switzerland
• Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
• 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 the Moonlight Sonata for the first time
• William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge

Years in Topic

• 1802 in literature
• 1802 in music
• 1802 in science

Births

• February 11 - Lydia Child, American author
• February 26 - Victor Hugo, French author
• July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French author
• July 26 - Mariano Arista, president of Mexico
• August 25 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
• July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French author
• December 15 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
• December 23 - Sara Coleridge (fille), British scholar

Deaths

• June 4 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, king of Sardinia
• November 9 - Thomas Girtin, artist
• November 15 - George Romney, artist
• November 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (* 1746)

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