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Historical Event(s)
– The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
– The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
– William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
– Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
– Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
– By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
– Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
– At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
– William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
– France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
– Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor (d. 1875)
– Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist (d. 1880)
– Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
– Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
– Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
– Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
– King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
– Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
– Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)