Contents
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
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.
Events of 1802
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.
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.
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
- 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.
Ongoing events
- French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)
- Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815)
Births
MDCCCII
Ab urbe condita 2555
Armenian calendar 1251
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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
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)
July–December
- July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French author (d. 1870)
- July 26 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
- August 4 – Joseph Bonnell, Hero of the Texas Revolution (d. 1840)
- 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)
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)
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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