In 1802 Ampère was appointed a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale in Bourg-en-Bresse, leaving his ailing wife and infant son in Lyon.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

In 1802, at the personal request of Napoleon, Canova returned to Paris to model a bust of the first consul.

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

George and Fanny married at Newburn Church on 28 November 1802.

Regular meetings are recorded into the nineteenth century-eight in 1800, five or six before August 1801 and at least one in 1802, while as late as 1809 Leonard Horner was describing " the remnant of the Lunar Society " as being " very interesting ".

* 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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

It was first seen and discussed there at a meeting on 1802.

Stephen Weston verbally presented an English translation of the Greek text at a Society of Antiquaries meeting in April 1802.

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.

On July 4, 1802, the US Military Academy at West Point formally started as an institution for scientific and military learning.

For the next 23 years, the two nations were at war except for a short period in 1802 – 1803.

As a successful diplomat between 1802 and 1819, Humboldt was plenipotentiary Prussian minister at Rome from 1802, ambassador at Vienna from 1812 during the closing struggles of the Napoleonic Wars, at the congress of Prague ( 1813 ) where he was instrumental in drawing Austria to ally with Prussia and Russia against France, a signer of the peace treaty at Paris and the treaty between Prussia and defeated Saxony ( 1815 ), at Frankfurt settling post-Napoleonic Germany, and at the congress at Aachen in 1818.

An expeditionary force under Napoleon's brother-in-law Charles Leclerc in January 1802, supplemented by 20, 000 troops over the next 21 months, had tried to re-conquer the territory and re-establish slavery.

Though he was a member of the Tribunat in 1802 and was made a senator of the First French Empire, Lucien came to oppose many of Napoleon's imperial ideas, particularly the marriage of convenience planned for him.

Fox confessed in December 1802 that he was " obstinate " in his belief that Napoleon's " wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree ".

The bishop remained in power until 1798 when Napoleon's troops invaded the Valais and declared a Revolutionary République du Valais ( March 16 ) which was swiftly incorporated ( May 1 ) into the Helvetic Republic until 1802 when it became the separate Rhodanic Republic.

In 1802, Napoleon's army annexed Piacenza to the French Empire.

Although an adversary of Napoleon's 18 Brumaire Coup which created the Consulate ( 9 November 1799 ), he was kept by Napoleon as his representative to the Republic of Lucca ( 1801 – 1802 ) and Liguria ( 1805, engineering the territory's annexation to the Empire.

In 1802, in response to Jefferson's request for authority to deal with the pirates, Congress passed " An act for the Protection of Commerce and seamen of the United States against the Tripolitan cruisers ", authorizing the President to "… employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as may be judged requisite … for protecting effectually the commerce and seamen thereof on the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.

The significant building, which overlooks the lake, was built between 1808 and 1815 by the architect Giocondo Albertolli upon a request by Francesco Melzi d ' Eril, nominated Duke of Lodi by Napoleon himself and for whom he fulfilled the role of vice-president of the Italian Republic from 1802.

Louis was married on 4 January 1802, to Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter of the deceased general Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and his wife Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie.

Although their marriage was not happy, they had two children: a son, Eugène de Beauharnais ( 1781 – 1824 ), and a daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais ( 1783 – 1837 ), who married Napoléon's brother Louis Bonaparte in 1802.

* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 ), married in 1826 Napoléon Louis, eldest son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and Hortense de Beauharnais, widowed in 1830

In August 1827, against his mother's wishes, he married Rosina Doyle Wheeler ( 1802 – 1882 ), a famous Irish beauty.

In 1802 he married Frances ( Fanny ) Henderson and moved to Willington Quay, east of Newcastle.

While in Madrid during 1802, he married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alaiza, who was his only wife.

* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 31 October 1802 – 2 March 1839 ); married, in 1826, Napoleon Louis Bonaparte.

Another daughter, Rebecca, married and lived a long life despite being scalped when she was 15 in 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.

* Joséphine Junot d ' Abrantès ( Paris, 2 January 1802 – Paris, 15 October 1888 ), married in November 1841 to Jacques-Louis Amet

She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802.

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

* George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford ( 11 September 1757-20 April 1802 ), who married, firstly, Maria Frances Mary Hobart-Hampden ( died 23 April 1794 ), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, on 30 September 1785 and had issue.

His eldest daughter, Saba ( 1802 – 1866 ), married Sir Henry Holland.

Ney married Aglaé Louise Auguié ( Paris, 24 March 1782 – Paris, 1 July 1854 ) at Grignon on 5 August 1802.

In 1802, Pistrucci married Barbara Folchi, daughter of a well-to-do merchant.

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.

He had a sister, Adélaïde de Lesseps ( 1803 – 1879 ), married to Jules Tallien de Cabarrus ( 19 April 1801 – 1870 ), and two brothers, Théodore de Lesseps ( Cádiz, 25 September 1802 – Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 20 May 1874 ), married in 1828 to Antonia Denois ( Paris, 27 September 1802 – Paris, 29 December 1878 ), and Jules de Lesseps ( Pisa, 16 February 1809 – Paris, 10 October 1887 ), married on 11 March 1874 to Hyacinthe Delarue.

* Napoleon Charles Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1807 ), prince of Holland and son of Napoleon I's brother Louis

Honoré's sisters Laure and Laurence were born in 1800 and 1802, and his brother Henry-François in 1807.

The fourth brother, Étienne Vincent de ( 1802 – 1892 ), is said to have collaborated with Honoré de Balzac in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of light dramatic pieces, mostly in collaboration.

In 1802, Charles supported his brother with several thousand pounds.

He was so moved by her death that he decided to abdicate, June 4, 1802 in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel.

Charles Emmanuel himself took little interest in the rule of Sardinia, living with his wife on the mainland in Naples and Rome until his wife's death in 1802, which led the childless Charles Emmanuel to abdicate the throne in favor of his younger brother.

The Swedish minister and missionary Petrus Læstadius ( 1802 – 1841 ; brother of Lars Levi Læstadius, founder of the largest Christian revival movement in Norrland ) collected old stories and myths in the area in the 19th century, which create the basis for our knowledge from that time.

The Church sent him to work at the parishes of Colima and San Felipe Torres Mochas until he became the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, succeeding his brother Felipe ( also a priest ), who died in 1802.

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (; 15 October 1802 – 28 October 1857 ), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris.

* King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, who succeeded his brother Charles Emmanuel IV in 1802

Friedemann's students included Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in 1802 published the first biography of Johann Sebastian Bach ; Friedemann, as well as his younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, were major informants for Forkel.

In 1802 he was elected MP for East Retford in Nottinghamshire through the influence of his brother Charles, who had married the dowager duchess of Newcastle ( whose family owned the borough ).

In 1802, at the age of nineteen, Rafinesque came to Philadelphia with his younger brother, and traveled through Pennsylvania and Delaware, where he made the acquaintance of most of the young nation's few botanists.

He and his brother published two additional volumes of their anatomical treatise in 1802 and 1804.

He was the son of the Unitarian minister and abolitionist William Henry Furness ( 1802 – 1896 ), and brother of the architect Frank Furness ( 1839 – 1912 ).

He was in India between 1797 and 1799, and again from 1801 to 1802, and was a useful assistant to his brother in a variety of diplomatic capacities, negotiating treaties with Mysore and Oudh.

His younger brother, Benjamin Wyon ( 1802 – 1858 ), his nephews, Joseph Shepherd Wyon ( 1836 – 1873 ) and Alfred Benjamin Wyon ( 1837 – 1884 ), and his cousin, William Wyon ( 1795 – 1851 ) were also distinguished medallists.

About 1802 the North West Company chartered the heavily-armed Eddystone and placed it under Captain Richards, a former Hudson's Bay Company man and John George McTavish, the younger brother of the Chief of Clan McTavish.

* Adolphe Monod ( 1802 – 1856 ), French Protestant churchman ; brother of Frédéric Monod.

In addition Héder's brother, Károly Viczay ( 1802 – 1867 ) married to Mária Khuen ( 1811 – 1848 ), Károly Khuen-Héderváry's aunt.

She had a brother called Bill and a sister called Grace Scott was born at Glendon, near Singleton, New South Wales, fifth of eight children of Helenus Scott ( 1802 – 1879 ) and his wife Sarah Ann née Rusden.

In 1802, when Andreas was ten years old, his father took him and Nicolaos, but not his wife, to Livorno ( Leghorn ) in Italy, where his brother was consul for the Ionian Islands and where there was a Greek community.

After leaving Westminster School, he was apprenticed, in 1802, to his brother, an apothecary, with the view of adopting the profession of medicine.