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Historical Event(s)
– The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
– The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
– Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
– William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
– 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.
– Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
– Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
– By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
– William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
– France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
– Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
– Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
– Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
– Robert Chambers, Scottish author and naturalist (d. 1871)
– Mariano Arista, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
– Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian general (d. 1834)
– Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
– Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
– Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)