1802 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1802?
- March 16, 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- March 25, 1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- March 28, 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- April 15, 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- April 26, 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
- May 3, 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
- May 19, 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- May 20, 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
- June 4, 1802 – Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
- July 4, 1802 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
- September 3, 1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
- September 11, 1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
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