1802

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1770s  1780s  1790s  – 1800s –  1810s  1820s  1830s
Years:	1799 1800 1801 – 1802 – 1803 1804 1805

1802 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1802 MDCCCII
French Republican calendar	10–11
Ab urbe condita	2555
Armenian calendar	1251 ԹՎ ՌՄԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	6552
Balinese saka calendar	1723–1724
Bengali calendar	1209
Berber calendar	2752
British Regnal year	42 Geo. 3 – 43 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2346
Burmese calendar	1164
Byzantine calendar	7310–7311
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4498 or 4438     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4499 or 4439
Coptic calendar	1518–1519
Discordian calendar	2968
Ethiopian calendar	1794–1795
Hebrew calendar	5562–5563
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1858–1859
- Shaka Samvat	1723–1724
- Kali Yuga	4902–4903
Holocene calendar	11802
Igbo calendar	802–803
Iranian calendar	1180–1181
Islamic calendar	1216–1217
Japanese calendar	Kansei 14 / Kyōwa 1 (享和元年)
Javanese calendar	1728–1729
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4135
Minguo calendar	110 before ROC 民前110年
Nanakshahi calendar	334
Thai solar calendar	2344–2345
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

1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• March 16 – West Point is established.
• March 25/27 – Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
• March 28 – H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas.
• May 19 – Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
• June 8 – Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux for prison.
• July 4 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
• August 2 – In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for life.
• September 11 – The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of Napoleonic France.
• October 2 – War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
• July – Eleuthère Irénée du Pont founds E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, the modern DuPont Company.
• October – French army enters Switzerland.
• Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
• Treviranus uses the term biology for the first time.
• Thomas Wedgwood produces the world's first photograph, but has no means of fixing the image, which quickly fades.
• William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas.
• Ludwig van Beethoven performs the Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
• William Wordsworth publishes the poem "Westminster Bridge."
• The estimated world population reaches 1 billion people.

Ongoing events

• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)

Births

for more information, see Category:1802 births.

Deaths

for more information, see Category:1802 deaths.