1802

1802 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

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.
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 - 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 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.
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.

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)
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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