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
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