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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.
– 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
– Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
– At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
– William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
– Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
– Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist (d. 1880)
– Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
– Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)
– Harriet Martineau, controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist (d. 1876)
– Mariano Arista, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
– Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer and Regent-President (d. 1894)
– King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
– Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)