* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

* 1802 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet ( d. 1850 )

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

* 1802 – Franz Aepinus, German philosopher ( b. 1724 )

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

#* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 )

#* Napoleon Charles Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1807 )

* 7 Dukes and Duchess of Parma ( 1731 – 1735, 1748 – 1802, 1814 – 1859 )

** Erasmus Darwin ( 1731 – 1802 ), physician and biologist, grandfather of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* 1724 – Franz Aepinus, German scientist ( d. 1802 )

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

In England Rees's Cyclopaedia ( 1802 – 1819 ) contains an enormous amount in information about the industrial and scientific revolutions of the time.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

In August 1827, against his mother's wishes, he married Rosina Doyle Wheeler ( 1802 – 1882 ), a famous Irish beauty.

* 1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor ( d. 1881 )

* 1734 – William Stacy, American Army officer and pioneer ( d. 1802 )

At the same time, there were 2230 non-Swiss men and 1802 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.

At times during the Napoleonic Wars, the islands were occupied by the British ; first from March 1801 to March 27, 1802, and then again from December 1807 to November 20, 1815, when they were returned to Denmark.

At the conclusion of the Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1796 ), the Duchy of Milan was sold to the French Republic and then entered the Cisalpine Republic ( which, in 1802, became the Italian Republic ).

* Myers, Walter Dean, At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, ISBN 0-590-48669-1 ( some information for this article was derived from the editorial reviews of this book as listed here: ) Category: 1802 births Category: 1880 deaths Category: African royalty

At a dinner to celebrate Pitt's birthday in 1802, Canning wrote the song ‘ The Pilot that Weathered the Storm ’, performed by a tenor from Drury Lane, Charles Dignum:

At this point, Malacañan Palace, a summer home originally built in 1750 by Spanish aristocrat Don Luis Rocha, then subsequently sold to Spanish Col. José Miguel Formente in 1802, and then purchased by the state in 1825, became the temporary residence of the Governors-General.

At age 15, Willard was enrolled in her first school in 1802 in her hometown of Berlin.

At least three generations of the White family business undertook shipbuilding before Thomas White, ( 1773 – 1859 ) the grandfather of John Samuel White, moved from Broadstairs, to East Cowes on the northern coast of the Isle of Wight in 1802, where he acquired the shipbuilding site on the east bank of the River Medina where there was already more than a century of shipbuilding tradition.

At the general election of 1802 Burdett was returned as Member of Parliament for the county of Middlesex, but his return was declared void in 1804 and he lost the ensuing by-election owing to the machinations of the returning officer.

At this time, the railroad is using one New York Central vintage RS32 ( 2035 ) as well as one Nickel Plate vintage RS-11 ( 1802 ).

At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1802, the School of Civil Engineering was founded at the initiative of Augustin de Bethencourt, an outstanding representative of the eloquent restless and inquiring spirit of the Spanish Enlightenment.

In the 18th century a water mill was built on the river, rebuilt in 1802 ; it featured in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet Major ; he also wrote a poem " At the Railway Station, Upway ", which most likely relates to Upwey station.

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).

* 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.

Following the advice of George Washington, John Adams and others, in 1802 Jefferson and Congress agreed to authorize the funding and construction of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River in New York.

On July 4, 1802, the US Military Academy at West Point formally started as an institution for scientific and military learning.

* Between 1801 and 1802, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey was divided into the United States District Courts for the Districts of East Jersey and West Jersey.

The Corps of Engineers as it is known today came into being on 16 March 1802, when President Thomas Jefferson was authorized to " organize and establish a Corps of Engineers ... that the said Corps ... shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York and shall constitute a Military Academy.

Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.

In 1802 he refused the position of drawing master at Great Marlow Military College, a move which Benjamin West ( then master of the RA ) counselled would mean the end of his career.

In 1802, Northampton was divided into Leicester, Batavia, Southampton, Northampton, and East and West Pultney-after Sir William Pultney.

West Point is a federal military reservation established by President of the United States Thomas Jefferson in 1802.

The United States Military Academy was established at West Point in 1802 and has the longest continuous service of any United States military installation and is the nation's oldest military academy.

The British North West Company built its inland headquarters at Grand Portage ; the post was active until 1802.

He opened the Junior Department of the College at West Street in Marlow in 1802., to train " Gentleman Cadets " for the infantry, cavalry and Indian Army.

* March 16, 1802: West Point established

It successively came under control of the Traite de Tadoussac ( French period ), King's Posts ( English period ), the North West Company ( 1802 ), and the Hudson's Bay Company ( 1821 ).

These included West India Docks ( 1802 ), East India Docks ( 1803, originating from the Brunswick Dock of 1790 ), London Docks ( 1805 ), Surrey Commercial Docks ( 1807, originating from the Howland Great Wet Dock of 1696 ), St Katharine Docks ( 1828 ), Royal Victoria Dock ( 1855 ), Millwall Dock ( 1868 ), Royal Albert Dock ( 1880 ), and Tilbury docks ( 1886 ).

Lord Dunfermline married Mary Anne, daughter of Egerton Leigh, of West Hall, in High Legh, on 14 June 1802.

The West India Docks are a series of three docks on the Isle of Dogs in London, the first of which opened in 1802.

The two northern-most docks were constructed between 1800 and 1802 ( officially opened on 27 August 1802 ) for the West India Dock Company to a design by leading civil engineer William Jessop ( John Rennie was a consultant, and Thomas Morris, Liverpool's third dock engineer, was also involved ), and were the first commercial wet docks in London.