A Regency Era Timeline 1802 in progress

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorling Kindersley book.

I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1802:

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Year

Month Day

Event



1802

Jan 25

Napoleon was elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic.



1802

Jan 26

Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol.



1802

Jan 29

John Beckley of Virginia was appointed 1st Librarian of Congress.



1802

Jan

In London, England, William Cobbett (1763-1835) set up the Weekly Political Register. It spread dissent during the post-war recession.



1802

Feb 4

Mark Hopkins, US  educator, philosopher (Williams College), was born.



1802

Feb 8

Simon Willard patented a banjo clock.



1802

Feb 23

Dewitt Clinton (1769-1828) began serving as US Senator from New York and continued to 1803.



1802

Feb 26

Victor Hugo (d.1885), French novelist and poet, was born in Besancon. In 1998 Graham Robb published the biography: “Victor Hugo.” “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”



1802

Feb

Napoleon sent a large army under his brother-in-law, Charles Leclerc, to regain control of St. Domingue. Thousands of soldiers died mainly to yellow fever and French control was abandoned so as to support military ventures in Europe. Toussaint L’Ouverture  (Louverture) turned to guerrilla warfare inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution and its motto of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”



1802

February

February: The Rosetta Stone, having been taken from the French as part of the spoils of war in Egypt, arrives in London and is presented to the Society of Antiquaries. A few months later, it is given to the British Museum.



1802

Mar 16

The US Congress authorized the establishment of the US Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. President Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the US Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.



1802

Mar 24

Richard Trevithick was granted a patent in London for his steam locomotive.



1802

Mar 27

Treaty of Amiens was signed. The French Revolutionary War ended.



1802

March

March: the Peace of Amiens, the final peace treaty with France, is signed.



1802

Apr 4

Dorothea Dix, American proponent of treatment of mental inmates, was born.



1802

Apr 8

French Protestant church became state-supported and controlled.



1802

Apr 19

Spain reopened the New Orleans port to American merchants.



1802

Apr 27

Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, was born.



1802

April

April: A general amnesty is signed by Napoleon allowing all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.



1802

April

April: Parliament repeals the British income tax of 1799 and orders that all documents and records relating to the tax be destroyed in response to public outcry.



1802

May 3

Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city, with the mayor appointed by the president and the council elected by property owners.



1802

May 15

Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (d.1888), Major General (Confederate Army), was born.



1802

May 18

Great Britain declared war on Napoleon’s France.



1802

May 19

provided that anyone admitted swore to uphold liberty and equality.



1802

May

May: Napoleon establishes the Légion d’Honneur or Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur as a reward to commend civilians and soldiers. (All orders of the kingdom had been abolished during the French Revolution.) The Order remains the highest decoration in France.



1802

May

In Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) Gen. Toussaint L’Ouverture surrendered to French forces. Many of his generals continued to wage a guerilla campaign against the French.



1802

Jul 4

The United State Military Academy opened its doors at West Point, New York, welcoming the first 10 cadets.



1802

Jul 7

The first comic book was published in Hudson, NY. “The Wasp” was created by Robert Rusticoat.



1802

Jul 8

Gen. Toussaint L’Ouverture of Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) was sent to France in chains.



1802

Jul 9

Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercial electric motor, was born.



1802

Jul 24

Alexandre Dumas (d.1870), French novelist and dramatist who wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Three Musketeers,” was born. Alexandre Dumas, pere, French author of romantic plays and novels. He wrote “The Man in the Iron Mask.” He was the father of Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895), French author of plays of social realism.



1802

Aug 2

Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed “Consul for Life” by the French Senate after a plebiscite from the French people.



1802

Aug 5

Niels Henrik Abel (d.1829), mathematician, was born in Frindoe, Norway.



1802

Aug 7

Napoleon ordered the re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti).



1802

Aug 25

Toussaint L’Ouverture (Louverture) was imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France.



1802

Aug 31

Captain Meriwether Lewis left Pittsburgh to meet up with Captain William Clark and begin their trek to the Pacific Ocean.



1802

August

August: Napoleon is declared First Consul for life in a new French constitution, and is given the right to name his successor.



1802

Sep 4

A French aeronaut dropped eight-thousand feet equipped with a parachute.



1802

Sep 11

Piedmont, Italy, was annexed by France.



1802

Sep 19

Louis Kossuth (d.1894), later president of Hungary, was born. “The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than its wisest men.”



1802

Oct 10

The 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma was made.



1802

Oct 22

Samuel Arnold (62), English composer, died.



1802

Oct 28

The 34-gun Spanish frigate Juno, enroute back to Spain from Mexico [Puerto Rico], ran into a storm off the coast of Virginia. Captain Don Juan Ignacio Bustillo perished along with 425 men, women and children and an estimated half-billion dollars in treasure. A boy from the wreck survived on Assateague Island and was named James Alone. He later changed his name to James Lunn. Many Chincoteague islanders later traced their descent to James.



1802

Oct 31

Benoit Fourneyron, inventor of the water turbine, was born.



1802

October

October: The Edinburgh Review begins publication.



1802

October

October: The French army enters Switzerland.



1802

Nov 9

Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, was born.



1802

November

November: British painter George Romney dies at age 67.



1802

November

November: British watercolorist Thomas Girtin dies at age 27. His early death prompts J.M.W. Turner to remark: “Had Tom Girtin lived, I should have starved.”



1802

Dec 20

The United States bought the Louisiana territory from France. [see Jan 11, 1803]



1802

December

December: Madame Tussaud arrives in London and exhibits her wax figures for the first time in England at the Lyceum Theater. From 1803 to 1835, she tours throughout England with her exhibition. In 1835 the exhibiton finally gets a permanent home on Baker Street in London.



1802



Henry Holland converts York House on Piccadilly (for ten years a residence of the Duke of York) into the Albany apartments, 69 sets of rooms for bachelors.



1802



Sculptor Antonio Canova’s Perseus With the Head of Medusa is so admired that it is placed in one of the stanze of the Vatican hitherto reserved for the most precious works of antiquity.



1802



The Factories Act (sometimes called the “Health and Morals of Apprentices Act”) is passed, regulating factory conditions, especially in regard to child workers in cotton and woollen mills.



1802



The first practical steamboat towed two barges along the Forth and Clyde Canal.



1802



The Rosetta Stone. The Ptolemaic stela includes three translations of a single passage: in hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. It was ultimately the key to understanding the previously undecipherable ancient hieroglyphic language. French scholar Jean-François Champollion is credited with the first translation in 1822. The stone has been on display at the British Museum since 1802.



1802



The second volume of Joanna Baillie’s Plays of the Passions is published under her name.



1802



William Cobbett begins publishing the Political Regsiter, a weekly newspaper.



1802



The Ottoman Turks, trying to maintain empire, are fighting the Saud family and its Sunni Wahhabi allies. In Mesopotamia the Wahhabis capture the Shiite holy city of Karbala. In Arabia they capture Mecca.



1802



Leader of Haitian independence, Toussaint L’Ouverture, receives a message from the French General Brunet to meet for negotiations. Brunet assures Toussaint that he will be perfectly safe with the French, whom he says are gentlemen. When Toussaint shows up for the meeting, the French take and ship him to France, to a prison near the Swiss border.



1802



The war-weary British sign a treaty ending their war against France — The Treaty of Amiens.



1802



James Gillnay painted “Cow-Pock,” a satirization of the new cowpox vaccination to prevent smallpox.



1802



Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) published “The New American Practical Navigator,” later known as the “seaman’s bible.” It was a revision of his 1799 and 1800 works, which in turn revised the 1722 work of John Hamilton Moore.



1802



John Playfair published a more readable volume of Hutton’s Theory of the Earth as Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth.



1802



James Callender, an English-born journalist, published a report in the Richmond, Va., Recorder about Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with the slave Sally Hemmings [Hemings]. In 1997 Annette Gordon-Reed published: “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, an American Controversy.” DNA tests of descendants in 1998 indicated that Jefferson fathered at least one child with Hemmings, her youngest son Eston Hemmings in 1808. Dr. Eugene Foster, author of the DNA report, later said the DNA tests showed that any one of 8 Jefferson males could have fathered Eston. In 2008 Annette Gordon-Reed authored “The Hemmingses of Monticello: An American Family.”



1802



Beethoven composed the 6 Gellert songs of Op. 48.



1802



Congress repealed all taxes except for a tax on salt and left the government dependent on import tariffs.



1802



Andrew Jackson was elected to command the Tennessee militia.



1802



Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours (d.1834), a French immigrant, set up a saltpeter mill in Wilmington, Del., on the banks of the Brandywine River. In 8 years it grew to become America’s largest black-powder plant as it supplied gunpowder to the US for the War of 1812.



1802



Joseph Ellicott, New York Quaker surveyor, founded Genessee County and the town of Batavia: “God made Buffalo, I will try and make Batavia.”



1802



Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer, discovered an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, He believed it to be a planet and named it Pallas after Pallas Athena (goddess of wisdom and war).



1802



Edward Howard, English chemist, determined that the iron in meteorites was a unique blend of iron and nickel that did not occur in known terrestrial rocks.



1802



An American captain of the ship Palmyra blew ashore on a southern atoll 1,052 miles south of Hawaii and named it Palmyra after his ship.



1802



Harriot Wilson was publicly executed by the state of Pennsylvania for the murder of her infant child. An account of the “exploits of the murderess” is published in 1822 by J. Wilkey.



1802



In Australia the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy (b.~1750) was shot dead. His head was cut off and believed to have been placed in a jar and sent to England. He opposed British settlement and was described by Sydney’s then governor Philip King as “a terrible pest to the colony” but also “a brave and independent character.”



1802



Britain levied the first English income tax to raise money to fight Napoleon. William Pit the Younger 1st introduced the income tax to finance the war against France.



1802



England passed its first law regulating child labor.



1802



A British exploring party led by Matthew Flinders landed on a 96-mile-long island southwest of Adelaide and slaughtered 31 kangaroos for a feast. This 3rd largest island off Australia was thus named Kangaroo Island. Flinders named the Great Barrier Reef and found a passage to the Corral Sea.



1802



The Rosetta Stone was seized by the British in Egypt after the defeat of Napoleon’s army and was sent to England.



1802



The Rome stock exchange was founded. The Borsa di Roma occupied the site of a temple completed in 145 AD as a tribute to Emperor Hadrian.



1802



In Vietnam Hue was founded as the royal capital of the Nguyen dynasty that united Vietnam. Palaces, tombs and monuments were located along the banks of the Perfume River.



1802-1803



George Friedrich Grotefend published his account of translating cuneiform script.



1802-1828



Richard Parkes, English watercolorist.



1802-1838



Letitia Landon, English poet: “Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.”



1802-1876



Harriet Martineau, English writer and social critic: “Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.”



1802-1880



Lydia Maria Child, American author Thought for Today: “It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.”



1802-1889



Juana Briones Y Tapia de Miranda was born in Santa Cruz, Ca. She was a battered wife and became the first California woman to get a divorce. She was the first to settle on Powell St. in what is now North Beach, SF. In 1989 the Women’s Heritage Museum persuaded the state to authorize a plaque in her honor to be set in Washington Square.