Notable Historical Events - 1802
1802 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador |
Jan 25 |
Napoleon Bonaparte elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic |
Jan 26 |
Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library |
Jan 29 |
John Beckley of Virginia appointed first Librarian of Congress |
Feb 2 |
1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents) |
Feb 8 |
Simon Willard patents banjo clock |
Mar 16 |
Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY) |
Mar 16 |
US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) |
Mar 25 |
France, Netherlands, Spain & Great Britain sign Peace of Amiens |
Mar 27 |
Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends |
Mar 28 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. |
Apr 8 |
French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled |
Apr 15 |
William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". |
May 3 |
Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city |
May 19 |
French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms |
Jun 4 |
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. |
Jun 9 |
US Academy at West Point founded |
Jun 15 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros |
Jul 4 |
US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY) |
Jul 7 |
1st comic book "The Wasp" is published |
Aug 2 |
Napoleon declared "Consul for Life" |
Aug 7 |
Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti) |
Aug 25 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France |
Sep 11 |
France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont. |
Oct 10 |
1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma |
Nov 1 |
Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio, to form a state constitutional convention. |
Dec 2 |
Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands |
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