* 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 )

Adolphe Niel ( 4 October 1802 – 13 August 1869 ) was a French Army general and statesman, also Marshal of France.

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.

Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc ( 17 March 1772, Pontoise – 2 November 1802 ) was a French Army general and husband to Pauline Bonaparte, sister to Napoleon Bonaparte.

The new fort was completed in 1802 and became the headquarters for the British Army and the local militia.

Metcalfe was born on 30 January 1785 in Lecture House, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, India, the second son of Thomas Metcalfe, then a major in the Bengal Army, who first went to India in 1767 as a cadet in the King ’ s Army, afterwards became a Baronet, MP, and Director of the British East India Company ( 1789 – 1812 ), and was created a baronet on 21 December 1802.

* United States Military Academy, also known as " West Point " and " Army ", founded 1802

* Sarah ( 1817 – 1900 ), who married Thomas Bowes Forster ( 1802 – 1870 ), Lieutenant-Colonel in the Madras Army.

Edward Hand ( 31 December 1744 – 3 September 1802 ) was an Irish-born soldier, physician, and politician who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of general, and later was a member of several Pennsylvania governmental bodies.

Louis Lebègue Duportail ( 1743 – 1802 ) was a French military leader who served as a volunteer and the chief engineer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

* George A. McCall ( 1802 – 1868 ), U. S. Army officer

* George A. McCall ( 1802 – 1868 ), United States Army brigadier general and prisoner of war during the American Civil War

This material is transcribed, with a few small edits, from Standard Operating Procedure # 1802, US Army Engineer Reactors Group, Ft. Belvoir, VA, dated 1 July 1969.

In 1802, the Rifle Corps was brought into the line of the British Army as the 95th Regiment of Foot, the 95th Rifles.

Walter Gwynn ( February 22, 1802 – February 6, 1882 ) was a civil engineer and soldier who became a Virginia Provisional Army general and North Carolina militia brigadier general in the early days of the American Civil War in 1861 and subsequently a Confederate States Army colonel.

Isaac Ridgeway Trimble ( May 15, 1802 – January 2, 1888 ) was a United States Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War, most famous for his leadership role in the assault known as Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

* Isaac R. Trimble ( 1802 – 1888 ), a U. S. Army officer, civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

The Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars ( 1792 – 1802 ) were a series of conflicts fought principally in Northern Italy between the French Revolutionary Army and a Coalition of Austria, Russia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and a number of other Italian states.

This Schaghticoke estate was held by Johannes Harmensen's son Johannes ( 1723 – 1802 ), a colonel in the Continental Army in the War of Independence, and by his son Herman, ( 1779 – 1855 ), a lawyer, a Federalist representative in Congress in 1809-1811, a member of the New York Assembly in 1816, and a famous gentleman of the old school, who for his courtly hospitality in his manor was called the " prince of Schaghticoke ," and whose name was borrowed by Washington Irving for use in his ( Diedrich ) Knickerbocker's History of New York ( 1809 ).

George Archibald McCall ( March 16, 1802 – February 25, 1868 ) was a United States Army officer who became a brigadier general and prisoner of war during the American Civil War.

In 1802, the British became the first foreign power to raise a regular unit of Sinhalese with British officers, which was named the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, also known as the Sepoy Corps. It fought alongside British troops in the Kandyan wars.

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.

In 1802, the mission of the Corps des Pages was broadened to that of a military academy, based on the ideals of the Order of St John.

In 1799, the Royal Waggon Corps was formed ; by August 1802, it had been renamed the Royal Waggon Train.

He was Chief of the new Artillery Corps from 1802 to 1815, first as a colonel and then during the War of 1812 as a brevet brigadier general.

He was promoted to Major within the Corps in 1802.

Thus it was first purged after its opposition to the projected Code civil in 1802 ( a purge made possible by a manoeuvre-the Tribunat was partially renewed at the regular interval, but it was unknown who in the Tribunat would be the first to be removed, and therefore Napoleon chose his opponents ), then suppressed by a decree of the Senate in 1807, with its remaining functions and members absorbed into the Corps législatif.

In light of the need for properly trained officers for the Guard units, the Page Corps was reorganized in 1802 into an educational establishment similar to cadet schools, which would accept the sons of the hereditary nobility of Russian land, and the sons of at least Lieutenant Generals / Vice Admirals or grandsons of full Generals / Admirals.

In 1802, the curriculum of the Corps des Pages was also changed, thereafter based on the ideals of the Order of St John.