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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades: 1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –   1810s   1820s   1830s
Years: 1799 1800 1801 – 1802 – 1803 1804 1805

Year 1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1802

January - March

April - June

  • April 26 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
  • May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur ( Legion of Honour).
  • May 20 - Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, which had been abolished during the French Revolution.
  • June 8 - Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux for prison.

July - September

  • July - Eleuthère Irénée du Pont founds E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the modern DuPont Company.
  • July 4 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
  • August 2 - In a plebiscite, Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as the First Consul.
  • 5 July to 28 August - A general election in the United Kingdom brings victory for the Tories led by Henry Addington.
  • September 3 - William Wordsworth publishes the poem " Westminster Bridge".
  • September 11 - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of the French First Republic.

October - December

Undated

  • 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 his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.

Ongoing events

Births

1802 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1802
MDCCCII
Ab urbe condita 2555
Armenian calendar 1251
ԹՎ ՌՄԾԱ
Assyrian calendar 6552
Bahá'í calendar -42–-41
Bengali calendar 1209
Berber calendar 2752
British Regnal year 42 Geo. 3 – 43 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2346
Burmese calendar 1164
Byzantine calendar 7310–7311
Chinese calendar 辛酉年十一月廿七日
(4438/4498-11-27)
— to —
壬戌年十二月初七日
(4439/4499-12-7)
Coptic calendar 1518–1519
Ethiopian calendar 1794–1795
Hebrew calendar 5562–5563
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1858–1859
 - Shaka Samvat 1724–1725
 - Kali Yuga 4903–4904
Holocene calendar 11802
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 802–803
Iranian calendar 1180–1181
Islamic calendar 1216–1217
Japanese calendar Kansei 14 Kyōwa 1
(享和元年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar 4135
Minguo calendar 110 before ROC
民前110年
Thai solar calendar 2345

January - June

  • January 3 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British politician (d. 1898)
  • February 11 - Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist author (d. 1880)
  • February 19 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
  • February 26 - Victor Hugo, French author (d. 1885)
  • March 7 - Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter (d. 1873)
  • April 4 - Dorothea Dix, American activist (d. 1887)
  • June 23 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)

July - December

  • July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French author (d. 1870)
  • July 26 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
  • August 5 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
  • September 19 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (d. 1894)
  • October 31 - Benoît Fourneyron, French engineer (d. 1867)
  • November 9 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
  • November 19 - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
  • December 15 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
  • December 23 - Sara Coleridge, British scholar (d. 1852)

Deaths

January - June

  • February 2 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
  • February 3 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (b. 1723)
  • February 26 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
  • April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
  • June 4 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (b. 1751)

July - December

  • August 10 - Franz Aepinus, German philosopher (b. 1724)
  • September 26 - Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and soldier (b. 1754)
  • November 9 - Thomas Girtin, English artist (b. 1775)
  • November 15 - George Romney, English artist (b. 1734)
  • November 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
  • July 22 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)


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