WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1802
Find out what all happened February to April 1802

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 Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. (26. April 1802)

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. (28. March 1802)

The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom. (25. March 1802)

William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. (15. April 1802)

The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. (16. March 1802)

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