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Conquest has made me what I am; only conquest can maintain me...
-
Napoleon Bonaparte
Born in 1802:
Norwegian
mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
.
English
painter
Edwin Henry Landseer
.
Swiss
chemist
Germain Henri Hess
.
French
novelist
and
poet
Victor Hugo
.
Hungarian
mathematician
Janos Bolyai
.
English pioneer of
sociology
Harriet Martineau
.
Confederate
general
Albert Sidney Johnston
.
English
poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
.
Hungarian radical politician
Lajos Kossuth
.
Belgian
violinist and composer
Charles-Auguste de Bériot
.
Cherokee
author
Elias Boudinot
.
American Mental health pioneer
Dorothea Dix
.
Died in 1802:
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
, widow of
George Washington
.
English
composer
Samuel Arnold
.
English
naturalist
Erasmus Darwin
(grandfather of
Charles Darwin
).
English
painter
George Romney
.
Italian sculptor
Giuseppe Ceracchi
.
A
Yellow Fever
epidemic
kills:
800 people in
Philadelphia
.
(fall) 20,000 soldiers in the French expeditionary force to
Haiti
,
(October 22) French commander
Charles Leclerc
(November).
Events of 1802:
William Wollaston
observes
dark lines
in the Sun's spectrum
but interprets them incorrectly.
France renames its puppet
Cisalpine Republic
the
Italian Republic
.
Reports about US President
Thomas Jefferson
and
his slave
Sally Hemings
appear in
Richmond, VA
newspapers.
The
Ohio
Territory
enacts a constitution in preparation for
statehood
.
(January 26) The
United States Congress
founds the
Library of Congress
.
(January) 25,000
French troops
arrive in Haiti
. Commanded by
Napoleon Bonaparte
's brother-in-law
Charles Leclerc
, they are there to reconquer it from
Toussaint L'Ouverture
and restore
slavery
.
(March 27) The
Treaty of Amiens
suspends the war between
GReat Britain
and
France
,
Holland
, and
Spain
. Malta is supposed to go back to the
Knights of St. John
but the
British
retain control.
(April 26) An
amnesty
allows most of the nobility who fled the French Revolution to return.
(May) After losing several battles,
L'Ouverture begins negotiating
his surrender.
(June)
L'Ouverture is arrested
by Leclerc and is imprisoned in France.
(August 2) A plebiscite overwhelmingly makes
Bonaparte First Consul for life
.
(October)
Jean-Jacques
Dessalines
and
Alexandre Petion
fight on against the French.
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of
Elgin
sees some marble friezes on
some old temple in Athens
and decides they would look nice on his new house.
Eleuthére Irénée
du Pont
de Nemours
founds a company to make
black powder
in
Wilmington
,
Delaware
.
Alexander von Humboldt
reaches the summit of
Chimborazo
in
Ecuador
, the furthest point on the surface of the Earth from its center.
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1803
1801
Niels Henrik Abel
Victor Hugo
Boko Haram
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
George Romney
Sally Hemings
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Salzburg
Wilhelm von Humboldt
János Bolyai
Napoleon Bonaparte
1851
Yellow Fever
Uniformitarianism
Fraunhofer lines
Parthenon