1802

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  • 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.

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