1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1802nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 802nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1800s decade. As of the start of 1802, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
March 25: The Treaty of Amiens is signed.
1802 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1802
MDCCCII
French Republican calendar10–11
Ab urbe condita2555
Armenian calendar1251
ԹՎ ՌՄԾԱ
Assyrian calendar6552
Balinese saka calendar1723–1724
Bengali calendar1209
Berber calendar2752
British Regnal year42 Geo. 3 – 43 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2346
Burmese calendar1164
Byzantine calendar7310–7311
Chinese calendar辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
4499 or 4292
    — to —
壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4500 or 4293
Coptic calendar1518–1519
Discordian calendar2968
Ethiopian calendar1794–1795
Hebrew calendar5562–5563
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1858–1859
 - Shaka Samvat1723–1724
 - Kali Yuga4902–4903
Holocene calendar11802
Igbo calendar802–803
Iranian calendar1180–1181
Islamic calendar1216–1217
Japanese calendarKansei 14 / Kyōwa 1
(享和元年)
Javanese calendar1728–1729
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4135
Minguo calendar110 before ROC
民前110年
Nanakshahi calendar334
Thai solar calendar2344–2345
Tibetan calendar阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
1928 or 1547 or 775
    — to —
阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1929 or 1548 or 776
August 2: Napoleon is confirmed as the First Consul of France.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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  • October 2 – War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
  • October 15 – French Army General Michel Ney enters Switzerland with 40,000 troops, on orders of Napoleon Bonaparte.[12]
  • October 16 – The port of New Orleans and the lower Mississippi River are closed to American traffic by order of the city's Spanish administrator, Juan Ventura Morales, threatening the economy in the western United States, and prompting the need for the Louisiana Purchase.[13]
  • October 26 – A powerful 7.9 earthquake shakes the Romanian district of Vrancea destroying hundreds of buildings, triggering landslides and killing 4 people. This earthquake is considered one of the strongest to have shaken Europe.
  • November 16 – The newly elected British House of Lords is inaugurated by King George III, who tells the members, "In my intercourse with foreign powers, I have been actuated by a sincere disposition of the maintenance of peace," but adds that "My conduct will be invariably regulated by a due consideration of the actual situation of Europe, and by a watchful solicitude for the permanent welfare of my people."[14]
  • November 23 – East Indiaman Vryheid, in the service of the Batavian Republic, is shipwrecked in a gale off Hythe, Kent, in the south of England; only 18 of 472 on board survive.
  • December 2 – The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act in the United Kingdom comes into effect, regulating conditions for child labour in factories. Although poorly enforced, it pioneers a series of Factory Acts.

Births

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January–June

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Victor Hugo
 
Lydia Maria Child
 
Dorothea Dix

July–December

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Alexandre Dumas
 
Sara Coleridge

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Erasmus Darwin
 
Martha Washington

July–December

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References

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  1. ^ Christopher Hitchens, The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification (Verso Books, 2016)
  2. ^ Coleman, Helen Turnbull Waite (1956). Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 206. OCLC 2191890. Archived from the original on November 11, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
  3. ^ Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (University of Tennessee Press, 1990) p210–211
  4. ^ "Rome", in Biography of the Principal Sovereigns of Europe who Have Reigned Since the French Revolution (Ogle, Duncan, and Co., 1822) p99
  5. ^ a b Ivan Lindsay, The History of Loot and Stolen Art: from Antiquity until the Present Day (Andrews UK Ltd., 2014)
  6. ^ Timothy Jones, Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and Other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) p20, p129
  7. ^ Pamela Pilbeam, Madame Tussaud: And the History of Waxworks (A&C Black, 2006) p65
  8. ^ "An Account of a method of copying Painting upon Glass and making profiles, by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver." Invented by T. Wedgwood, Esq. with Observations by H. Davy.
  9. ^ Robert Hirsch, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
  10. ^ "Nguyen Anh (Emperor Gia Long)", by Nguyen The Anh, in Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ed. by Keat Gin Ooi (ABC-CLIO, 2004) p870
  11. ^ "E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company", by Richard Junger, in The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising (Routledge, 2015) p500
  12. ^ Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (Penguin, 2014)
  13. ^ "Mississippi River", by Gene A. Smith, in The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2002) p226
  14. ^ William Belsham, History of Great Britain: From the Revolution, 1688, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802, Volume 12 (Phillips, 1805) p485
  15. ^ Brown, Thomas J. (1998). Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-67421-488-0. Archived from the original on December 7, 2023. Retrieved June 25, 2021.