Historical Events in 1802
- 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 First celebration of Burns Night, in honor of poet Robert Burns's birthday by The Mother Club in Greenock (later realized his actual birthday 25th January)
- 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 1st US Military Academy at West Point is established through Congressional act (opened July 4, 1802)
- Mar 16 US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
- Mar 25 Great Britain and the French Republic sign the Treaty of Amiens
- More Events in 1802
Victor Hugo
Dorothea Dix
Alexandre Dumas
Martha Washington
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Would You Believe?
1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians
On July 7, 1802
Famous Weddings in 1802
- Oct 4 English romantic poet William Wordsworth (32) marries childhood friend Mary Hutchinson
Ludwig van Beethoven
Henry Addington
Napoléon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson