Events in History
- 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 US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
- Mar 16 1st US Military Academy at West Point is established through Congressional act (opened July 4, 1802)
- Mar 25 Great Britain and the French Republic sign the Treaty of Amiens
- Mar 28 Wilhelm Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man
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- Oct 4 English romantic poet William Wordsworth (32) marries childhood friend Mary Hutchinson
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