Year 1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

• January 15 – Canonsburg Academy (now Washington & Jefferson College) is chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.^[1]
• March 16 – Army Corps of Engineers re-established.
• March 16 – The United States Military Academy at West Point is established.
• March 25–March 27 – Napoleonic Wars: The Treaty of Amiens between France and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
• March 28 – H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas.

April–June

• April 6 – Revenue Commission disbanded.
• April 10 – Great Trigonometric Survey of India begins with the measurement of a baseline near Madras.
• April 26 – A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allows all but about 1,000 of the most notorious migr s 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 ultimately consolidates his own rule.
• May 19 – Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French L gion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
• May 20 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
• June 1 – Patent and Trademark Office within Department of State
• June 2 – Indigenous Australian Pemulwuy, a leader of the resistance to European settlement of Australia, is shot dead by Henry Hacking.
• June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture is seized by French troops and is imprisoned at the Fort de Joux.
• June – Gia Long is crowned as first Emperor of the Nguy n Dynasty in Vietnam.

July–September

• July – Eleuth re Ir n e 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.
• July 5–August 28 – A general election in the United Kingdom brings victory for the Tories, led by Henry Addington.
• July 22 – Gia Long captures Hanoi, completing his unification of Vietnam.
• August 2 – In a plebiscite, Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as the First Consul.
• September 3 – William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge.
• September 11 – The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of the French First Republic.

October–December

• October 2 – War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
• October – The French army enters Switzerland.

Date unknown

• Thomas Wedgwood publishes an account of his experiments in photography, along with Humphry Davy. Since they have no means of fixing the image, their photographs quickly fade.
• Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
• The English Parliament forbids pauper apprentices.

Births

January–June

• January 3 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British politician (d. 1898)
• February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist author (d. 1880)
• February 19 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
• February 26 – Victor Hugo, French author (d. 1885)
• March 7 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter (d. 1873)
• April 4 – Dorothea Dix, American activist (d. 1887)
• May 2 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
• June 23 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)

July–December

• July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, p re, French author (d. 1870)
• July 26 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
• August 4 – Joseph Bonnell, Hero of the Texas Revolution (d. 1840)
• August 5 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)
• September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian politician (d. 1894)
• October 31 – Beno t Fourneyron, French engineer (d. 1867)
• November 9 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
• November 19 – Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
• December 15 – J nos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
• December 23 – Sara Coleridge, British scholar (d. 1852)

Date unknown

• Friedrich Hohe, German lithographer and painter (d. 1870)

Deaths

January–June

• February 2 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
• February 3 – Pedro Rodr guez, 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)
• May 22 – Martha Washington, first First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)

July–December

• July 22 – Marie Fran ois Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
• 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 – Andr Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
• December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (b. 1716)

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