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 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.

He chose to join the service of the British East India Company and in 1802 at the age of 18 boarded the East Indiaman Brunswick.

In 1802, at the age of 14, young William Henry ran away to sea from life in a succession of London boarding houses, joining a merchant vessel which later was taken over by the Royal Navy.

Palmerston at age 18, 1802

Arriving in the spring of 1795, at the age of 26, he soon became the assistant of Jean-Claude Mertrud ( 1728 – 1802 ), who had been appointed to the newly created chair of comparative anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes.

The son of a former doctor in the French navy, Henri Lacordaire was born on the 12 May 1802 at Recey-sur-Ource ( Côte-d ' Or ) and raised in Dijon by his mother, Anne Dugied, the daughter of a lawyer at the Parliament of Bourgogne who was widowed at an early age, when her husband died in 1806.

Johann Peter Lange ( April 10, 1802, Sonneborn ( now a part of Wuppertal )-July 9, 1884, age 82 ), was a German Calvinist theologian of peasant origin.

He was a well regarded surgeon and was elected as president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1802 at the age of only 28 years.

In 1802, at age 28, Anne Catherine and her friend Klara Söntgen finally managed to join the Augustinian nuns at the convent of Agnetenberg in Dülmen.

At age 15, Willard was enrolled in her first school in 1802 in her hometown of Berlin.

During his frail and sickly old age ( 1802 – 1809 ), the composer often would struggle to the piano to play his song, often with great feeling, as a form of consolation ; and as his servant Johann Elssler narrated, it was the last music Haydn ever played:

In the summer of 1802, at the age of fifteen, Eliza married Charles Hopkins.

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.

David Beam ( 1802 – 1854 ) took on his father's responsibilities in 1820 at the age of 18, expanding distribution of the family's bourbon during a time of industrial revolution.

In 1802, Benjamin Logan died of a stroke at age 60 his home 6 miles southwest of Shelbyville, Kentucky.

Richard Parkes Bonington ( 25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828 ) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France.

The Stainforth and Keadby Canal cut across the region in 1802, providing some transport facilities, but the coming of the railway age resulted in calls for railways to be built to carry the agricultural produce to market.

Lowell died at his home in Roxbury on May 6, 1802, at age 59.

Another brother, Moritz von Mohl ( 1802 – 1888 ), entered official life at an early age and was a member of the Frankfort parliament, and later of the parliament of Württemberg and of the imperial Reichstag.

* April 26 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral ( d. 1802 )

Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega ( also correct Veha ; official ; ) ( born Vehovec, March 23, 1754 – September 26, 1802 ) was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer.

On 26 April 1802, Flinders, unaware of Murray ’ s visit, entered Port Phillip in Investigator, climbed Arthur ’ s Seat, rowed to Mornington and across to the Bellarine Peninsula and climbed the You Yangs.

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

He was also made a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, both on 26 December 1802, a role which expired with the Empire's dissolution in 1806.

John E. Colhoun ( DR ), until October 26, 1802

Dom Miguel I ( English: Michael I ; 26 October 1802, Lisbon – 14 November 1866, Schloss Karlshöhe, Bavaria ), " the Absolutist " () or " the Traditionalist " (), was the King of Portugal between 1828 and 1834, the seventh child and third son of King João VI ( John VI ) and his queen, Carlota Joaquina of Spain.

José Mariano Martín Buenaventura Ignacio Nepomuceno García de Arista Nuez ( 26 July 1802 – 7 August 1855 ) was a noted veteran of many of Mexico's nineteenth-century wars who served as president of Mexico from 15 January 1851 to 6 January 1853.

All except Gaikwad chief of Baroda, who had already accepted British protection by a separate treaty on 26 July 1802, supported the new regime.

All except Gaikwad chief of Baroda, who had already accepted British protection by a separate treaty on 26 July 1802, supported the new regime.

The Consulta of the République cisalpine receives the Napoleon | First Consul on 26 January 1802, Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1806 – 08

Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt ( June 17, 1802 – April 26, 1866 ) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France.

George Romney ( 26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802 ) was an English portrait painter.

Commodore Esek Hopkins ( April 26, 1718 – February 26, 1802 ) was the only Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

February 26, 1802

Alexander Geddes ( 14 September 1737 – 26 February 1802 ) was a Scottish theologian and scholar.

White was born 23 May 4 1821 in New York City to Richard Mansfield White ( b: 26 May 1797, Bloomfield, NJ ) and Ann Eliza ( Tousey or Towsey ) White ( b: 5 August 1802 ).

* 26 August 1802 – 1805 — Victor Hercule Joseph Ferdinand comte de Lavilla de Villasteloni

The Consulta of the République cisalpine receives the Napoleon | First Consul, 26 January 1802, Nicolas-André Monsiau, 1806 – 08

* 3rd session: from 22 November 1801 ( 1 frimaire year X ) to 14 August 1802 ( 26 thermidor year X ).

An act of 4 July 1797 gave the Company powers to extend the navigation, which resulted in the Newport terminus being moved southwards to Potter Street, while a third act of 26 June 1802 authorised specific railways, and allowed the Company to raise additional finance.

In May 1802, he was appointed Archbishop of Milan, and as such he blessed, on 26 May 1805, the Iron Crown, which Napoleon placed on his own head in his new dignity of King of Italy.