WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1802
Find out what all happened January to September 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)

William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. (3. September 1802)

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

At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. (4. July 1802)

France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont. (11. September 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)

By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution (20. May 1802)

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

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

Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel. (4. June 1802)

Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour. (19. May 1802)