1802

Year 1802 () was a of the  or a  of the.

January - March

 * - is established.
 * / - between  and  ends the.
 * - discovers the.

April - June

 * - A general amnesty signed by allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious s of the  to return to, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the  that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
 * - establishes the  .
 * - reinstates slavery in the, which had been abolished during the.
 * - an  is seized by  troops and sent to  for prison.

July - September

 * - founds, the modern.
 * - At, the  opens.
 * - In a, is confirmed as the.
 * to - A  in the  brings victory for the  led by.
 * - William Wordsworth publishes the poem "".
 * - The region of  becomes a part of the.

October - December

 * - War ends between and . The  also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
 * - army enters.

Undated

 * opens her famous  in, having been commissioned during the  to make death masks of the victims.
 * uses the term for the first time.
 * produces the world's first, but has no means of fixing the image, which quickly fades.
 * builds the first successful, the .
 * performs his  for the first time.

Ongoing events

 * (-1802).

January - June

 * -, British politician (d. )
 * -, American abolitionist author (d. )
 * -, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. )
 * -, French author (d. )
 * -, British painter (d. )
 * -, American activist (d. )
 * -, Russian admiral (d. )

July - December

 * -, French author (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, Norwegian mathematician (d. )
 * -, Hungarian politician (d. )
 * -, French engineer (d. )
 * -, American abolitionist (d. )
 * -, American politician (d. )
 * -, Hungarian mathematician (d. )
 * -, British scholar (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, British statesman (b. )
 * -, Spanish statesman and writer (b. )
 * -, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. )
 * -, English physician and botanist (b. )
 * -, King of Sardinia (b. )

July - December

 * -, German philosopher (b. )
 * -, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and soldier (b. )
 * -, English artist (b. )
 * -, English artist (b. )
 * -, French botanist (b. )
 * -, French anatomist and physiologist (b. )


 * See also .