16th March » The United States Army Corps of Engineers known as Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy named United States Military Academy at West Point.
25th March » The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
28th March » Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
15th April » William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth called Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.
26th April » Napoleon I of France or 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 Régime and
3rd May » Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
19th May » Napoleon or Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
20th May » By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon I of France or Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonial empire known as French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
4th June » Grieving over the death of his wife, Clothilde of France or Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy or Victor Emmanuel.
4th July » At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
3rd September » William Wordsworth composes the sonnet 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802'.
11th September » France annexes the Kingdom of Sardinia named Kingdom of Piedmont.
Famous Birthdays in 1802
3rd January » Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)
10th January » Carl Ritter von Ghega, Albanian engineer (d. 1860)
2nd February » Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
6th February » Charles Wheatstone, English physicist (d. 1875)
11th February » Lydia Maria Child, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 1880)
16th February » Phineas Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866)
19th February » Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss politician (d. 1881)
20th February » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1870)
26th February » Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1885)
27th March » Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
27th March » Félix-Jacques Moulin, French photographer (d. 1875)
4th April » Dorothea Dix, American activist (d. 1887)
9th April » Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (d. 1884)
13th April » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
2nd May » Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
12th June » Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (d. 1876)
5th July » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
10th July » Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802) known as Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
24th July » Alexandre Dumas, French author and playwright (d. 1870)
26th July » Mariano Arista, Mexican politician, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
5th August » Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1829)
25th August » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet (d. 1850)
31st August » Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian general (d. 1834)
13th September » Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and author (d. 1880)
19th September » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, List of heads of state of Hungary called Governor-President of Hungary (d. 1894)
16th October » Isaac Murphy, American politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
25th October » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (d. 1864)
9th November » Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (d. 1837)
19th November » Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
29th November » Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and author (d. 1827)
Famous Deaths in History for 1802
2nd February » Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
26th February » Esek Hopkins, American admiral (b. 1718)
18th April » Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
2nd May » Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general and politician, List of colonial governors of the Dutch Gold Coast or Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (b. 1762)
22nd May » Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
6th July » Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (b. 1736)
22nd July » Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
10th August » Franz Aepinus, German-Russian philosopher and academic (b. 1724)
24th September » Alexander Radishchev, Russian author and critic (b. 1749)
26th September » Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and physicist (b. 1754)
8th October » Emmanuel Vitale, Maltese general (b. 1758)
16th November » André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (b. 1746)