1802

Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
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Years:	1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805

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**1802 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1802 MDCCCII
Ab urbe condita	2555
Armenian calendar	1251 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԱ
Chinese calendar	4438/4498-11-27 (辛酉年十一月廿七日) — to — 4439/4499-12-7 (壬戌年十二月初七日)
Ethiopian calendar	1794 – 1795
Hebrew calendar	5562 – 5563
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1857 – 1858
- Shaka Samvat	1724 – 1725
- Kali Yuga	4903 – 4904
Iranian calendar	1180 – 1181
Islamic calendar	1217 – 1218
Japanese calendar	Kansei 14 (寛政14年) — changed to — Kyōwa 1 (享和元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2462 (皇紀2462年)
- Jōmon Era	11802
Thai solar calendar	2345

1802 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

[edit] Events

March 16 - West Point is established.
March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas.
April 26 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés 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 would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
May 20 - Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, which had been abolished during the French Revolution.
June 8 - Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux for prison.
July - Eleuthère Irénée 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.
August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for life.
5 July to 28 August - A general election in the United Kingdom brings victory for the Tories led by Henry Addington.
September 11 - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of Napoleonic France.
October 2 - War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
October - French army enters Switzerland.

Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
Treviranus uses the term biology for the first time.
Thomas Wedgwood produces the world's first photograph, but has no means of fixing the image, which quickly fades.
William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas.
Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
William Wordsworth publishes the poem "Westminster Bridge".
The estimated world population reached 1 billion people.