1802 Calendar
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1802 Historical Event(s)
March 16, 1802
– The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
March 25, 1802
– The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
March 28, 1802
– Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
April 15, 1802
– William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
April 26, 1802
– 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.
May 20, 1802
– By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
June 4, 1802
– 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.
July 4, 1802
– At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
September 3, 1802
– William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
September 11, 1802
– France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Who Were Born On 1802?
February 2, 1802
– Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
February 16, 1802
– Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866)
February 19, 1802
– Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
July 5, 1802
– Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
August 5, 1802
– Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
September 13, 1802
– Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
September 24, 1802
– Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
October 26, 1802
– King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
November 9, 1802
– Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
November 19, 1802
– Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)