1802

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18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* March 16 - West Point is established \n*March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition\n*March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas\n*May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur ("legion of honour")\n* July 4 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens. \n*August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for a lifetime\n*September 11 - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of Napoleonic France\n*October 2 - War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.\n*October - French army enters Switzerland\n* Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.\n* Thomas Wedgwood produces the world's first photograph, but has no means of fixing the image, which quickly fades\n* William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas\n* Ludwig van Beethoven performs the Moonlight Sonata for the first time\n* William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge

Ongoing events

\n* French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)\n* Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

\n*February 11 - Lydia Child, American author\n*February 19 - Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (+1881)\n*February 26 - Victor Hugo, French author\n*July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French author\n*July 26 - Mariano Arista, president of Mexico\n*August 25 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician\n*December 15 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician\n*December 23 - Sara Coleridge (fille), British scholar

Deaths

\n*June 4 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, king of Sardinia\n*September 26 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (* 1754)\n* November 9 - Thomas Girtin, artist\n* November 15 - George Romney, artist\n* November 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (* 1746)\n* July 22 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n