* 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.

Bamberg thus lost its independence in 1802, becoming part of Bavaria in 1803.

Erfurt became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1802.

During the Napoleonic Wars ( 1802 – 1814 ), Parma was part of the Taro Département.

The abbey was secularized in 1802 during the German Mediatisation and Quedlinburg passed to the Kingdom of Prussia as part of the Principality of Quedlinburg.

Apart from another short occupation by Venice ( 1527 – 1529 ), Ravenna was part of the Papal States until 1796, when it was annexed to the French puppet state of the Cisalpine Republic, ( Italian Republic from 1802, and Kingdom of Italy from 1805 ).

In 1802, Clinton County was reduced in size by a part of Clinton and two other counties being taken to form the new St. Lawrence County.

From 1789 until 1802, the portion of Maryland converted into Washington, DC, was part of two US Congressional Districts, represented in 1801 by US Rep. John Chew Thomas from Maryland's 2nd, and US Rep. William Craik from Maryland's 3rd.

It was created by an Act of the Legislature in 1803 after the Wilkinson Treaty was signed with the Creek Indians on January 16, 1802, which ceded part of the Tallassee Country and part of the lands within the forks of the Oconee and Ocmulgee Rivers to the United States.

The Spanish presence returned with the California mission system, and the area was part of Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit — a land grant — in 1802.

The land immediately west of the Oconee River had just been opened up by the Treaty of Fort Wilkinson ( 1802 ), in which the Creek people, hard pressed by debts to white traders, agreed to cede part of their ancient land.

It was then part of Minot, set off from Poland and incorporated in 1802.

" The area was once part of Little River Plantation, a portion of which was incorporated in 1799 as Thompsonborough, then renamed in 1802 after Lisbon, Portugal.

As part of this program, in 1802 Gregorie Sarpy was granted by Charles de Hault Delassus, the last Spanish lieutenant governor of the Illinois Country.

Portions of the township were taken to form Little Egg Harbor Township ( February 13, 1740, now part of Ocean County ), Washington Township ( November 19, 1802 ), Pemberton borough ( December 15, 1826 ), Coaxen Township ( March 10, 1845, now known as Southampton Township ), Pemberton Township ( March 10, 1846 ), Westampton Township ( March 6, 1850 ) and Lumberton Township ( March 14, 1860 ).

The town was formed in 1802 from the Town of Aurelius as the " Town of Jefferson ," while still part of Onondaga County.

When Genesee County was established in 1802, all of the region was part of the Town of Batavia, the single, original town of Genesee County.

The town was formed in 1802 from part of the Town of Willsboro.

The town was formed from part of the Town of Watertown in 1802 before the establishment of Jefferson County.

Leyden was also partitioned to form the Towns of Brownville ( Jefferson County in 1802 ) and Boonville ( Oneida County in 1805 ), and part of the Town of Wilna ( Jefferson County in 1813 ).

When Genesee County, New York was formed in 1802, all of Niagara County was included and was part of the Town of Batavia.

In 1802, part of Westmoreland was used to establish the Towns of Vernon and Verona.

The town, originally called Dunning Street, was created in 1802 from part of the Town of Stillwater.

The mix of fancy and fact in the Cronyke van Hollandt, Zeelandt ende Vriesland ( called the Divisiekronike ), first published in 1517, brought the spare remarks in Tacitus ' newly-rediscovered Germania to a popular public ; it was being reprinted as late as 1802.

Transported to London, it has been on public display at the British Museum since 1802.

He married her in a private ceremony at Wyton in Huntingdonshire on 28 September 1795, but did not make the fact public until October 1802, and Elizabeth was never really accepted at court.

He took a leading part in framing the statute which, in 1802, launched the system of public examinations at the University of Oxford, but otherwise he was not prominent in university affairs.

In 1801, under the Consulate, he became councillor of state and director of the Trésor public ( Treasury ), and in 1802 a senator.

In 1802 he became titular professor at the Jardin des Plantes ; and in the same year he was appointed commissary of the Institute to accompany the inspectors general of public instruction.

A meeting was held in Witham in December, 1802, to consider the subject, including the purchase or hire of a building for public worship in Tollesbury.

He became one of the first members of the French National Institute and was appointed inspector of public instruction in 1802.

Every year he exhibited work of one class or another: occasionally a public monument in the round, like those of Pasquale Paoli ( 1798 ) or Captain Montague ( 1802 ) for Westminster Abbey, of Sir William Jones for University College, Oxford ( 1797 – 1801 ), of Nelson or Howe for St Paul's Cathedral ; more often memorials for churches, with symbolic Acts of Mercy or illustrations of Scripture texts, both commonly in low relief ( 1801 ), Miss Cromwell, Chichester ( 1800 ), Mrs Knight, Milton, Cambridge ( 1802 ), and many more ; and these pious labours he would vary from time to time with a classical piece like those of his earliest predilection.

The expansion of the public domain in books broke the dominance of the London booksellers and allowed for competition, with the number of London booksellers and publishers rising threefold from 111 to 308 between 1772 and 1802.

In 1802, the Teleki Library founded by count Sámuel Teleki was opened for the public with 40. 000 volumes.

Vansittart began his public career by writing pamphlets in defence of the administration of William Pitt, especially on its financial side, and in May 1796 became Member of Parliament for Hastings, retaining his seat until July 1802, when he was returned for Old Sarum.

* the Surrey Iron Railway, linking Wandsworth and Croydon ( 1801 – 1802 ), arguably the world's first public railway — albeit horse-drawn

He entered public service in the foreign office under Lord Grenville, and sat from 1796 to 1802 as member of parliament for the close borough of West Looe in Cornwall.

In 1802 the priest Leopold Szersznik created a museum which later became a Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, one of the first public museums in Polish lands.

After studying philology and theology at Jena and Göttingen, in 1785 he became teacher in the gymnasium of his native town, and in 1802 was appointed to an office in the public library.

In 1798, he used gas to light the main building of the Soho Foundry and in 1802 lit the outside in a public display of gas lighting, the lights astonishing the local population.

A governmental position overseeing public education was first created in France in 1802.

Its next owner was Guiglielmo Libri ( b. 1802, d. 1869 ), who is most famous for stealing medieval mansucripts from French public libraries ; he sold it to the London book dealers Payne and Foss, who in turn sold to the British Museum in November 1845.

The public square in the 4th arrondissement of Paris that is now the Place de l ' Hôtel de Ville ( City Hall Plaza ) was, before 1802, called the Place de Grève.

His great-grandfather Sámuel Teleki ( 1739 – 1822 ), a chancellor of Transylvania, had founded the Teleki library in Târgu Mureş ( Marosvásárhely ), one of the first Hungarian public libraries, which opened in 1802 and holds today more than 200, 000 priceless volumes.

The formal opening of the canal was on 17 September 1802, and the day was declared to be a public holiday in Horncastle, so that everyone could celebrate.