1802
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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.
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[edit] Events of 1802
[edit] January - March
- 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.
[edit] April - June
- April 26 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand 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 would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
- May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
- May 20 - Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, which had been abolished during the French Revolution.
- June 8 - Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture 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 - French army enters Switzerland.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Ongoing events
- French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802).
- Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1802 MDCCCII
|
| Ab urbe condita | 2555 |
| Armenian calendar | 1251 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -42 – -41 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2346 |
| 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
14
— changed to — Kyōwa
1
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2462 (皇紀2462年) |
| Julian calendar | 1847 |
| Korean calendar | 4135 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2345 |
[edit] January - June
- January 3 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British politician (d. 1898)
- February 11 - Lydia 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)
- June 23 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
[edit] July - December
- July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, 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 1802 births.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - June
- February 2 - Welbore Ellis, British statesman (b. 1713)
- February 3 - Pedro Rodríguez, 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)
- July 22 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
[edit] People of the year 1802 at Familypedia
27 people were born in 1802
4 people died in 1802
684 people lived in 1802
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