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Special Events for the Year 1802 - back to GREGSITE

Born :06/02/1802Adrian van der Hoop Jr, poet/critic
Born :07/24/1802Alexandre Dumas Pre, France, author (3 Musketeers)
Born :11/14/1802August F Pott, German philological (Etymology Forschungen)
Born :08/20/1802Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
Born :02/20/1802Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer
Born :07/21/1802David Hunter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Born :04/04/1802Dorothea Dix, US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates
Born :01/13/1802Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright
Born :04/09/1802Elias L”nrot, folklorist
Born :11/09/1802El˜ah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
Born :05/06/1802Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
Born :03/16/1802George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :02/21/1802George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
Born :07/01/1802Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878
Born :01/06/1802Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)
Born :07/24/1802Ira Aldridge, famous African
Born :05/15/1802Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
Born :11/20/1802James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881
Born :02/02/1802Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
Born :12/15/1802J nos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
Born :08/14/1802Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
Born :09/19/1802Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849)
Born :02/11/1802Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany)
Born :09/04/1802Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to US securing Oregon
Born :02/04/1802Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
Born :12/02/1802Melancthon Smith Wade, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Born :08/02/1802Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
Born :08/13/1802Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
Born :01/22/1802Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY)
Born :07/09/1802Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
Born :12/27/1802Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter
Born :02/26/1802Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Died :08/03/1802Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general strategist/diplomat, dies
Died :07/22/1802Marie-Fran‡ois-Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies
Died :10/22/1802Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies
Special :02/02/18021st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25›)
Special :10/10/18021st non indian settlement in Oklahoma
Special :01/26/1802Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
Special :12/02/1802English sell Suriname to Dutch
Special :04/08/1802French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
Special :03/28/1802H W Olbers discovers asteroid #2 Pallas
Special :03/28/1802Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid (Pallas)
Special :01/29/1802John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
Special :03/16/1802Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
Special :08/02/1802Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
Special :01/25/1802Napoleon elected president of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
Special :08/07/1802Napoleon orders slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
Special :03/27/1802Pallas (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers
Special :06/15/1802Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship H‚ros
Special :08/25/1802Toussaint L'Ouverture premiers in Fort de Joux, Jura
Special :03/27/1802Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
Special :07/04/1802US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
Special :03/16/1802US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
Special :05/03/1802Washington DC incorporates as a city

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