1802

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 - 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 .

April - June

April 26 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigré s 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 - Haiti an Revolutionary Toussaint Louverture 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 - 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.

World Population reached 1 billion people.

Ongoing events

French Revolutionary Wars ( 1792 -1802).

Napoleonic Wars ( 1799 - 1815 ).

BIRTHS

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 )

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 .''

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 )

July 22 - Marie François Xavier Bichat , French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771 )

: ''See also .''

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