* Ignacy Krasicki ( Polish, 1735 – 1801 ), author of Fables and Parables ( 1779 ) and New Fables ( published 1802 )

Schelling ( 1800 – 1802 ); " Announcement " ( 1800 ); extract from " New Version of the Wissenschaftslehre " ( 1800 ); " Commentaries on Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism and Presentation of My System of Philosophy " ( 1800 – 1801 ).

* John Young ( governor ) ( 1802 – 1852 ), Governor of New York

* 1802 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.

Beginning in 1802, Napoleon sent more than 20, 000 troops to try to restore slavery on the island, as its colonial sugar cane plantations had been the chief revenue producer for France in the New World.

James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston traveled to Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans in 1802.

He moved back to New Haven in 1798 ; he was elected as a Federalist to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1800 and 1802 – 1807.

Jefferson had sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris in 1802 to try to buy the city of New Orleans and adjacent coastal areas.

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.

Herschel published his discoveries as three catalogues: Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars ( 1786 ), Catalogue of a Second Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars ( 1789 ) and the previously cited Catalogue of 500 New Nebulae ... ( 1802 ).

From 1802 to 1805, Lucy Wright sent Shaker missionaries to proselytize in Vermont, New York, Ohio, and Kentucky.

The Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle, New York, was the home from 1802 to 1806 of Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and Revolutionary War hero.

In 1802, Tlingit warriors destroyed several Russian settlements, most notably Redoubt Saint Michael ( Old Sitka ), leaving New Russia as the only remaining outpost on mainland Alaska.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1798, and of the New York State Senate from the Southern District from 1798 to 1802, and from 1806 to 1811.

He won the by-election for U. S. Senator from New York after the resignation of John Armstrong, Jr. and served from February 23, 1802, to November 4, 1803.

Captain Matthew Flinders, an explorer charting the continent north from the colony of New South Wales, sailed past in 1802.

* 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.

* Martha Washington, ( 1731 – 1802 ), born in New Kent County, wife of president George Washington

William Owen ( 1802 – 1842 ), Robert Owen's second oldest son, was involved in New Harmony's business and community affairs.

The trade route ( now Route 26 ) from Portland to Errol, New Hampshire, completed in 1802, passed through Newry.

Three were completed when the War of 1812 broke out ; these were the Santee Canal ( opened 1800 ) in South Carolina, the Middlesex Canal ( opened 1802 ) in Massachusetts and the Dismal Swamp Canal ( opened 1805 ) in Virginia.

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 ).

The coastline of South Australia was first mapped by Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin in 1802.

J. C. Calhoun's wife since 1811, Floride Calhoun, ( 1792 – 1866 ), was the daughter of South Carolina United States Senator and lawyer John E. Colhoun, ( 1750 – 1802 ).

The first confirmed evidence of a dinosaur to be found in North America was unearthed in South Hadley by Pliny Moody while plowing in 1802, 40 years before dinosaurs were identified as a fossil group.

An unofficial community of sealers and others existed on Kangaroo Island from 1802 to the time of South Australia's official settlement in 1836.

* James Burchill Richardson ( 1770 – 1836 ), Governor of South Carolina, 1802 – 1804

He wrote Memoirs of the Revolution as far as it Related to the States of North and South Carolina ( 1802 ).

After school, Taylor served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1796 to 1802 and again from 1804 to 1805.

* John Hunter ( South Carolina politician ) ( 1732 – 1802 ), American politician

Hunter was obliged to state his case in a long pamphlet printed in 1802, Governor Hunter's Remarks on the Causes of the Colonial Expense of the Establishment of New South Wales.

* John Campbell ( Australian politician ) ( 1802 – 1886 ), member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

In October 1802, his father married Anderson's daughter Elizabeth, and nine months later, on July 23, 1803 Maverick was born at his family's summer home in Pendleton District, South Carolina.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Mills moved to Philadelphia in 1802 where he became an associate and student of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

George Hall and his family arrived in the New South Wales Colony in 1802.

There were very few girls ' schools at the time, particularly in the South ; word spread about the girls ' school, and the school accepted boarding students in 1802.

Izaac Grier, 1802, Receipts for books of the ARP Synod of the South for the A. R. Constitution and Pressly on Baptism, 1802.

John Bull ( c. 1740 – 1802 ) was an American statesman and revolutionary who served as a delegate from South Carolina in the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787.

Aedanus Burke ( 16 June 1743 – 30 March 1802 ) was a soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina.

* Paul Hamilton Papers at the University of South Carolina Library's Digital Collections Page ( letters from 1802 – 1812 )

After spending four years in an English jail he was transported to New South Wales in 1802.

When King returned to New South Wales he built the headquarters for his government reserve of 1802 at the foot of a hill that reminded him of the Norfolk Island rooty hill and there can be little doubt that he named Blacktown's Rooty Hill after that on Norfolk where he had met his future wife and spent several happy and productive years.