1802

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
   * May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French l�gion d'honneur
     ("legion of honour")
   * 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 a lifetime
   * 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.
   * 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 the Moonlight Sonata for the first time
   * William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge

Births

   * February 11 - Lydia Child, American author
   * February 26 - Victor Hugo, French author
   * July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, p�re, French author
   * July 26 - Mariano Arista, president of Mexico
   * August 25 - Niels Henrik Abel, norwegian mathematician
   * July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, p�re, French author
   * December 15 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
   * December 23 - Sara Coleridge (fille), British scholar

Deaths

   * June 4 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, king of Sardinia
   * November 9 - Thomas Girtin, artist
   * November 15 - George Romney, artist

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