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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.
– Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
– William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
– Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
– 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.
– William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
– France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
– Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866)
– Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
– Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
– Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
– Mariano Arista, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
– Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
– Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian general (d. 1834)
– Isaac Murphy, American politician (d. 1882)
– Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)