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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.
May 19, 1802
– Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
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?
January 3, 1802
– Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
February 2, 1802
– Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
June 12, 1802
– Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
July 5, 1802
– Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
July 26, 1802
– Mariano Arista, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
August 5, 1802
– Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
August 25, 1802
– Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
September 13, 1802
– Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
September 19, 1802
– Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
October 16, 1802
– Isaac Murphy, American politician (d. 1882)