In 1802, William Paley published Natural Theology in response to naturalists such as Hume, refining the ancient teleological argument ( or argument from design ) to argue for the existence of God.

During the 1802 ministry of Alexander Spark, in response to a petition signed by 148 persons, the present Church site was granted by His Majesty George III, although it was not until 1807 that construction began.

So effective was Bayard in opposing Jefferson's government that all out effort was made by the Democratic-Republicans to unseat him in his attempt at a fourth term in 1802.

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

In 1802, at Napoleon's request, Hortense married his brother Louis Bonaparte.

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.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

Ideas for a cross-Channel fixed link appeared as early as 1802, but British political and press pressure over compromised national security stalled attempts to construct a tunnel.

Every HLM and LLM was built up around a single 1802 microprocessor and 32K of RAM ( for HLMs ) or 16K of RAM ( for LLMs ).

Thinking to regain control on the island that had produced so much wealth, Napoleon sent more than 20, 000 troops beginning in 1802 to quell the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which quickly escalated into war for independence.

William Paley famously argued, in his 1802 watchmaker analogy, that complexity in nature implies a God for the same reason that the existence of a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker.

In November 1802 he ran as a Federalist for the United States House of Representatives and lost.

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.

In 1802 he proceeded to the University of Marburg, where he studied law, a profession for which he had been destined by his father.

In the Western world, the first generally accepted pediatric hospital is the Hôpital des Enfants Malades ( French: Hospital for Sick Children ), which opened in Paris in June 1802 on the site of a previous orphanage.

In 1802, a writer named John Feltham wrote a version of the history of porter that has been used as the basis for most writings on the topic.

His actions would later be mimicked by the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte who was appointed " First Consul for life " in 1802.

Rather, in 1802, following the death of Charles Theodore, it was brought to Munich, where Baron Johann Paul Carl von Moll had obtained a general exemption of confiscation for the Bavarian collections.

Some Native Americans captured Europeans and used them as both labourers and bargaining chips ; see for example John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the Nootka people on the Pacific Northwest Coast from 1802 – 1805.

* Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet ( 1761 – 1817 ), Irish and British MP for Carlow County 1783 – 1790 and 1796 – 1802

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.

When Napoleon sought to sell the French territory of Louisiana to the United States in 1802, President Jefferson was concerned over the political consequences of acquiring a large tract of what was perceived then as predominantly southern territory, as well as a possible lack of constitutional authority to make the purchase.

* Dr. William Shepherd's Life of Poggio Bracciolini ( 1802 ) ( 1837 edition available online ) is a good authority on his biography.

In the year 1802 Charpentier went to Prussia, where he accepted a place with the Silesia Oberbergamt ( upper mining authority ) in Breslau.

The combined armies of Scindia and Peshwa were defeated at Hadapsar near Pune in 1802 and the Peshwa left Poona, as he feared being killed by Yeswantrao Holkar ( owing to his killing a Holkar a few years earlier for rebelling against his ( Peshwa's ) authority ).

Colman, whose witty conversation made him a favourite, was also the author of a great deal of so-called humorous poetry ( mostly coarse, though much of it was popular )-- My Night Gown and Slippers ( 1797 ), reprinted under the name of Broad Grins, in 1802 ; and Poetical Vagaries ( 1812 ).

* 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.

The Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.

Cornishman Richard Trevithick is credited with the first realistic design of the steam locomotive in 1802.

Desperate to avoid possible war with France, Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris in 1802 to negotiate a settlement, with instructions to go to London to negotiate an alliance if the talks in Paris failed.

The earliest English factory law was passed in 1802 and dealt with the safety and health of child textile workers.

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 newly sworn-in Republican 7th Congress immediately set about voiding the Judiciary Act of 1801 with their own Judiciary Act of 1802 which reversed the act of 1801 so that the Judicial branch once again operated under the dictates of the original Judiciary Act of 1789.

When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to begin the process of becoming a U. S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern boundary differed slightly from that used in the Northwest Ordinance: the border was to be " an east and west line drawn through the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line Canada ; thence with the same, through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.

Because the territorial boundary line between the U. S. and Canada ran through the middle of Lake Erie and then up the Detroit River, combined with the prevailing belief regarding the location of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River.

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 waited until 1802 ( in Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars ; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens ) to announce the hypothesis that the two stars might be " binary sidereal systems " orbiting under mutual gravitational attraction, a hypothesis he confirmed in 1803 in his Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars ; with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing.

From 1782 to 1802, and most intensively from 1783 to 1790, Herschel conducted systematic surveys in search of " deep sky " or nonstellar objects with two, and telescopes ( in combination with his favoured 6-inch aperture instrument ).

However, Nepoleon revoked the French Empire's ban on slavery with the Law of 20 May 1802.

The enrichment of soil with guano by the Incas was rediscovered by Alexander von Humboldt in 1802.

It may be noted that in a paper on the proportion of the gases or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere, read by him in November 1802, the law of multiple proportions appears to be anticipated in the words: " The elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity ", but there is reason to suspect that this sentence may have been added some time after the reading of the paper, which was not published until 1805.

Early Romantic traits can be found in the violin concertos of Viotti, but it is Spohr ’ s twelve violin concertos, written between 1802 and 1827, that truly embrace the Romantic spirit with their melodic as well as their dramatic qualities.

In Wordsworth's sonnet " The World Is Too Much with Us " ( ca 1802, published 1807 ), the poet regrets the prosaic humdrum modern world, yearning for

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.