* 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 )

* Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand, Voyage au Sénégal 1785 – 1786, Paris, Agasse, 1802.

He continued to write on birds, producing Histoire naturelle et générale des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops ( 1802 ) with illustrations by his friend Jean Baptiste Audebert, followed by Histoire naturelle des plus beaux oiseaux chanteurs de la zone torride ( 1806 ).

* Essai sur les monuments typographiques de Jean Gutenberg, Mayençais, inventeur de l ' imprimerie, Mainz 1801 / 1802

After the deportation of Toussaint Louverture in 1802, one of Toussaint's principal lieutenants, Jean Jacques Dessalines, continued the fight for liberty because he remembered the declaration of Toussaint Louverture: “ In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St-Domingue it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep .”

His two other brothers were Jean Arago ( 1788 – 1836 ), a general in the Mexican army ; and Étienne Arago ( 1802 – 1892 ), a writer and politician.

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault ( 2 February 1802 – 11 May 1887 ) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.

Thomas Jefferson had " potatoes served in the French manner " at a White House dinner in 1802.

* 1802 – Victor Hugo, French writer ( d. 1885 )

The French Revolutionary Wars 1787 – 1802 ( 1996 ).

* Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, ( French, 1755 – 94 ), author of Fables ( published 1802 )

Toussaint, however, asserted enough independence that in 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte sent a massive invasion force, under his brother-in-law Charles Leclerc, to increase French control.

* 1802 – Alexandre Dumas, French writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1885 – Victor Hugo, French author ( b. 1802 )

* 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution

* 1746 – André Michaux, French botanist ( d. 1802 )

In the Western world, the first generally accepted pediatric hospital is the Hôpital des Enfants Malades ( French: Hospital for Sick Children ), which opened in Paris in June 1802 on the site of a previous orphanage.

His actions would later be mimicked by the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte who was appointed " First Consul for life " in 1802.

Turner brought the stone to England aboard the captured French frigate HMS Egyptienne, landing in Portsmouth in February 1802.

* 1802 – Adolphe d ' Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist ( d. 1868 )

However, Nepoleon revoked the French Empire's ban on slavery with the Law of 20 May 1802.

* May 22 – Victor Hugo, French author ( b. 1802 )

* December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French author ( b. 1802 )

* July 31 – Benoît Fourneyron, French engineer and inventor of the turbine ( b. 1802 )

* May 20 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.