What is 1802?
{{Year nav|1802}} {{Year in various calendars|1802}} '''1802''' ([[Roman numerals|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]] – [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] is established. *[[March 25]]/[[March 27|27]] – [[Treaty of Amiens]] between [[France]] and [[United Kingdom]] ends the [[Napoleonic Wars|War of the Second Coalition]]. *[[March 28]] – [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|H. W. Olbers]] discovers the [[asteroid]] [[2 Pallas|Pallas]]. *[[May 19]] – [[Napoleon I of France|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 [[Referendum|plebiscite]] [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] is confirmed as consul for life. *[[September 11]] – The [[Italy|Italian]] region of [[Piedmont (Italy)|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]] – [[France|French]] army enters [[Switzerland]]. *[[Madame Tussaud|Marie Tussaud]] opens her famous [[Wax museum|wax]] [[Madame Tussaud's|museum]] in [[London]], having been commissioned during the [[Reign of Terror]] to make death masks of the victims. *[[Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus|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