1802 - Definition and Overview

Years:
1799 1800 1801 - 1802 - 1803 1804 1805

Decades:
1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

List of state leaders in 1802
List of religious leaders in 1802

Contents

1 Events

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).
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.
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."

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