1802 (original) (raw)

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Events

March 16 - West Point is established
March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition
May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French l�gion d'honneur ("legion of honour")
July 4 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for a lifetime
September 11 - The Italian region of 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.
October - French army enters Switzerland
Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
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 the Moonlight Sonata for the first time
William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge

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