1802
1802 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
EventsMarch 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 life.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.July - Eleuthère Irénée du Pont founds E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the modern DuPont Company.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." Ongoing eventsFrench Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)
BirthsFebruary 11 - Lydia Child, American abolitionist author (d. 1880)February 19 - Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1881)February 26 - Victor Hugo, French author (d. 1885)April 4 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)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)August 22 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, Chicago land speculator (d. 1886)November 9 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)December 15 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)December 23 - Sara Coleridge, British scholar (d. 1852)
DeathsApril 18 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist, grand-father of Charles Darwin (b. 1731)June 4 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, king of SardiniaSeptember 26 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (b. 1754)November 9 - Thomas Girtin, artistNovember 15 - George Romney, artistNovember 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)July 22 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist
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