1802

Years: 1799 1800 1801 - 1802 - 1803 1804 1805
Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1802 in art 1802 in literature 1802 in music 1802 in science 1802 in sports List of state leaders in 1802 List of religious leaders in 1802

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 Ongoing events

2 Births
3 Deaths

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 lÃÂ©gion 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 a lifetime
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.
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