1802

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Years:	1799 1800 1801 – 1802 – 1803 1804 1805

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1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 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).
• June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux for prison.
• 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.
• Treviranus uses the term biology for the first time.
• 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."
• The estimated world population reaches 1 billion people.

Ongoing events

• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

for more information, see Category:1802 births.

1802 Media

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  March 25: The Treaty of Amiens is signed.

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  August 2: Napoleon is confirmed as the First Consul of France.

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  Portrait photograph of Victor Hugo published in the widely distributed serial publication entitled Galerie contemporaine, littéraire, artistique. Issued in parts from 1876 to 1884 by the firm of Goupil & Cie, the series contained 241 portraits of leading figures from the worlds of art, literature, music, science, and politics by a host of Parisian photographers. The illustrations were

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  Engraving of abolitionist and writer Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) from Letters of Lydia Maria Child, compiled by John Greenleaf Whittier and Wendell Phillips, published by Houghton, Mifflin, 1882. Heavily adjusted for brightness/contrast.

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  U.S. Library of Congress DIX, DOROTHEA LYNDE. Retouched photograph. [No date found on item.] Location: Biographical File Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-9797

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  NadarAlexanderDumaspère()GoogleArtProject

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  Sara Coleridge (1902-1852)

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  PortraitofErasmusDarwinbyJosephWrightofDerby()

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  MarthaWashington

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1802 deaths.