* 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 )

Several of these works, including English Saga ( 1940 ), The Years of Endurance 1793 – 1802 ( 1942 ), and Years of Victory, 1802 – 1812, drew notable criticism, particularly for his preoccupation with comparing Napoleon and Hitler.

In 1802 Ussé was purchased by the duc de Duras ; as early as March 1813, low-key meetings were held at Ussé among a group of Bourbon loyalists, who met to sound out the possibilities of a Bourbon Restoration: such men as Trémouille, duc de Fitzjames, the prince de Polignac, Ferrand, Montmorency and the duc de Rochefoucault attended.

As early as 1802, a man named Frederick Royce lived among the Ox Indians at a place known as the Lick, two miles east of Salem and is probably the first white man to inhabit this county.

By a private treaty with France, signed in March 1802, he ceded his possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, receiving in return nine imperial towns, among them Reutlingen and Heilbronn, and some other territories, amounting altogether to about 850 square miles ( 2, 200 km² ) and containing about 124, 000 inhabitants.

Appointed Governor of Gibraltar by the War Office, gazetted 23 March 1802, the Duke took up his post on 24 May 1802 with express orders from the government to restore discipline among the drunken troops but his harsh discipline brought disaster precipitating a mutiny by soldiers in his own and the 25th Regiment on Christmas Eve 1802.

An early death among Europeans was very common due to diseases and conflicts ; the French soldiers that Napoleon sent in 1802 to quell the revolt in Saint-Domingue were attacked by Yellow fever during the Haitian Revolution, and more than half of the French army died of disease.

After the rebellion, and after a second conspiracy was discovered in 1802 among enslaved boatmen along the Appomattox and Roanoke Rivers, the Virginia Assembly in 1808 banned hiring out of slaves and required freed blacks to leave the state within 12 months or face re-enslavement ( 1806 ).

It was first established as a standing committee by resolution adopted December 21, 1795, and first appeared among the list of regular standing committees on January 7, 1802.

" The Court noted that " maps and charts " were among the subjects of the first Copyright Act of 1790, and that etchings and engravings were added when it was first amended in 1802.

The Law Library Company of the City of Philadelphia was founded in 1802 by 71 attorneys, among whom were the most prominent lawyers of the time.

Prominent among them was Andrew Chamrette, his son Peter Chamrette, and his grandson Charles Chamrette, who worked for the GTS of India from 1802 to 1876.

Notable among them were Surat Castle ( 1791 ), a 1, 000 ton ship with a crew of 150, Lowjee Family, of 800 tons and a crew of 125, and Shampinder ( 1802 ), of 1, 300 tons.

Oriental Scenery took its place among such revered works as J. Stuart and N. Revett ’ s Antiquities of Athens ( 1762 ), Baron Denon ’ s Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte ( 1802 ) and Robert Wood ’ s Ruins of Palmyra ( 1753 ) and Ruins of Balbek ( 1757 ).

For many years her salon was the centre of the literary life in the Austrian capital, frequented by Beethoven, Schubert, Friedrich von Schlegel and Grillparzer, among many others, from 1802 to 1824.

Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.

It may be noted that in a paper on the proportion of the gases or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere, read by him in November 1802, the law of multiple proportions appears to be anticipated in the words: " The elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity ", but there is reason to suspect that this sentence may have been added some time after the reading of the paper, which was not published until 1805.

Mainframes and some early microprocessors such as the RCA 1802 required several instructions to call a subroutine.

One of those destined for the pulpit was Thomas ( 1802 – 1851 ), but some quirk of originality set him off into an unusual career.

After Nguyễn Ánh established the Nguyễn Dynasty in 1802, he tolerated Catholicism and employed some Europeans in his court as advisors.

Even while based in London, Cotman had spent some time in the city of his birth, and in September 1802 had advertised his services as teacher of drawing in the Norwich Mercury.

* 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

In 1802 he went to Paris, where he had a circle including Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and edited the review Europa ( 1803 ), lectured on philosophy and carried on Oriental studies, some results of which he embodied in an epoch-making book, Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier ( On the Language and Wisdom of India ) ( 1808 ).

The year 1802 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

In 1797 Mathews married Eliza Kirkham Strong ( 1772 – 1802 ) of Exeter, the author of a volume of poems and some novels, and an actress.

He had intended to go to the bar, but in the October term of 1802 he chanced to hear Charles Simeon speaking of the good done in India by a single missionary, William Carey, and some time afterwards he read the life of David Brainerd, a missionary to the Native Americans.

During this period she wrote largely, and produced, in addition to some historical novels, her best romance, Mademoiselle de Clermont ( 1802 ).

On returning to France in 1802 he obtained a divorce from Thérésa ( who in 1805 married François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet ), and was left for some time without employment.

Until 1802, Torrevieja existed only as an ancient guard tower, which gave the town its name ( Torre Vieja ( Spanish ) means Old Tower ) and some labourers ' cottages.

The Légion d ' honneur instituted by Napoleon I in 1802 had some of the characteristics of the old military orders, but was intended to be far more inclusive, and was awarded to rank and file soldiers for bravery or exceptional service.

Her father died in Frederick, Maryland in 1802 of severe fever and some mental problems.

The year 1802 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Careful analysis led him to dispute some of Claude Louis Berthollet's theoretical views regarding the composition of the metallic oxides, and he also showed Berthollet's " zoonic acid " to be impure acetic acid ( 1802 ).

The Masseys later moved to Upper Canada some time between 1802 and 1807.

Hall ( 1802 – 1867, after whom " Big Ben " is said to have been named, as he was Commissioner of Works in 1855 when it was built ), was for some years Member of Parliament for Monmouth, but transferred to a London seat just prior to the Newport Rising which brought with it a turbulent time in Monmouthshire.

He had no son, and was succeeded as duc de Noailles by his grand-nephew, Paul ( 1802 – 1885 ), who won some reputation as an author, and who became a member of the French Academy in the place of Chateaubriand in 1849.

John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of chief Maquinna in 1802 – 1805, describes the area in some detail.

After some years of hesitation he resolved to be ordained, and in 1802 he passed with great distinction the examination for candidatus theologiae, and attracted the regard of FV Reinhard, author of the System der christlichen Moral ( 1788 – 1815 ), then court-preacher at Dresden, who became his warm friend and patron during the remainder of his life.