After the defeat of the French Campaign in the Battle of the Nile, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 King George III presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs.

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.

In Danish, the word " fregat " is often applied to warships carrying as few as 16 guns, such as HMS Falcon ( 1802 ) which the British classified as a sloop.

* 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British Member of Parliament ( b. 1802 )

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.

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

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

Before the end of 1802, the stone was transferred to the British Museum, where it is located today.

The stone has been exhibited almost continuously in the British Museum since June 1802.

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.

* January 16 – Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons ( b. 1802 )

* December 15 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman ( d. 1802 )

At times during the Napoleonic Wars, the islands were occupied by the British ; first from March 1801 to March 27, 1802, and then again from December 1807 to November 20, 1815, when they were returned to Denmark.

The town was visited in 1802 by Admiral Horatio Nelson, who knew the importance of the area's woodland in providing timber for the British Navy and approved a Naval Temple built in his honour on the nearby Kymin Hill.

The stone was discovered on July 15, 1799 in the port town of Rosetta Rosetta, Egypt, and has been held in the British Museum since 1802.

Both Berbice and the United Colony of Demerara and Essequibo were under British control from 1796 to 1802.

Minorca was invaded by the British once again in 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, but it was finally and permanently repossessed by Spain by the terms of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.

The Great Trigonometric Survey of India, started by the East India Company in 1802, then taken over by the British Raj after 1857 was notable as a successful effort on a larger scale and for accurately determining heights of Himalayan peaks from viewpoints over one hundred miles distant.

Upper-class British visitors flocked to Paris in the summer and autumn of 1802.

It was named in honor of Daniel Morgan ( 1736 – 1802 ), an American Revolutionary War officer who commanded the troops that defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens and who later served as a U. S. congressman from Virginia.

Designated L Island by Lieutenant Matthew Flinders of the British Royal Navy in September 1802 as one of his numerous alpha-numeric designations along the Queensland coast during his circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator in 1802 / 3.

The Mitford family was twice elevated to the British peerage, in 1802 and 1902, under the title Baron Redesdale.

By 1802 the Separatists had grown in number to about 12, 000 and the Württemberg government decided that they were a dangerous threat to social order.

In 1802, the federal government promised to extinguish Indian titles to lands claimed by Georgia in return for Georgia's cession of the western lands that became Alabama and Mississippi.

Created by Alexander I on 28 March 1802 in the process of government reforms to replace the aging collegia of Peter the Great, the MVD was one of the most powerful governmental bodies of the Empire, responsible for the police forces and Internal Guards and the supervision of gubernial administrations.

Hopeful gold speculators began trespassing on Cherokee lands, and pressure began to mount on the Georgia government to fulfill the promises of the Compact of 1802.

It was formerly the residence of Joséphine de Beauharnais, and with the Tuileries, was from 1800 to 1802 the headquarters of the French government.

The office existed yet in the Italian states before the Italian unification ( 1861 ), with various names ( e. g., in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies the name was " intendente "); the born of the office, in Italian system, dates from the times on Napoleonic occupation on Italy ( 1802 ), so it celebrates 200 years of life in 2002 ; the current name dates from 1861, under the government of Bettino Ricasoli, when a law extended the Kingdom of Sardinia administrative system to whole Italy.

Appointed Governor of Gibraltar by the War Office, gazetted 23 March 1802, the Duke took up his post on 24 May 1802 with express orders from the government to restore discipline among the drunken troops but his harsh discipline brought disaster precipitating a mutiny by soldiers in his own and the 25th Regiment on Christmas Eve 1802.

So, on September 12, 1794 the President appointed Thornton one of the three Commissioners of the Federal District in charge of laying out the new federal city and overseeing construction of the first government buildings, including the Capitol of which he became supervisor and remained in charge until 1802.

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states.

It led to Georgia's cession of the land to the U. S. government in the Compact of 1802.

Governor King began a government farm there on 8 July 1801, referring to it as Castle Hill on 1 March 1802.

The département lists, once approved by the government, were published in the Bulletin des lois in 1801 and 1802 ; these lists are still the basis of the administrative divisions of France in place today, although cantons with small populations have been eliminated and new cantons created in areas of strong demographic growth.

The college in Maynooth was established by the government as a college for Catholic lay and ecclesiastical students in 1795, the lay college was based from 1802 in Riverstown House on the south campus, with the opening of Clongowes Wood, the lay college which had lay trustees was closed in 1817 and it functioned solely as a Catholic seminary for almost 150 years.

From 1802 to 1816 he served as " Devil to the Attorney General ", opening all government prosecutions, and was standing counsel for the Bank of England and many Deans and Prelates in the Church of England.

It was later used by Thomas Jefferson as a commentary on the First Amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch of the federal government, in an 1802 letter.

" The modern concept of a wholly secular government is sometimes credited to the writings of English philosopher John Locke, but the phrase " separation of church and state " in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper.

In 1802 he entered government employ as an officer of customs.

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, Abele entered the service of the new government and died at Ulm as section director of the Country Directorate and the first secular councillor of the Consistorium.

During the Stecklikrieg, when the government of the Helvetic Republic retreated to Lausanne, following their capitulation, Orbe was briefly occupied by Federal troops in September 1802.

These delegates would meet in Chillicothe on November 1, 1802, and would decide by majority vote whether or not to form a constitution and state government, and, if so, either provide for the election of representatives for a constitutional convention or to proceed immediately with the matter.

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.