This page relates to the year 1802 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Americas

  • April 30th: Enabling Act in the United States, stipulating the procedures to be followed by any territory wishing to become a State of the Union. It must, in particular, respect the clauses of the decree of 1787 abolishing slavery.
  • June: In Alaska, the Indians Tinglits, destroy the fort of Sitka and massacre the Russian colonists.
  • July: Éleuthère Irenee of the Bridge of Nemours (1771-1834) founds E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Company close to Wilmington (Delaware), and launches out in the production of powder. With its death, the Dupont factory will be most important of this type to the the United States.

  • Law on the trade and the relations with the Indians: the Congrès of the United States specifies that any transfer of territories must be made via treaties signed with the tribes and that the federal law applies to all the Indian territory.

The Caribbean

  • Repression of the consecutive revolt of the Blacks to the re-establishment of slavery in Guadeloupe.

See also: Haitian Revolution, Forwarding of Santo Domingo

Africa

  • Rebellion of the Moslem prophet toucoulor Usman daN Fodio against Natafa, king Haoussa of Gober in which it sees a restorer of paganism.
    • Usman daN Fodio, known as Torodo, was born with Degel in 1754. His/her Mohammed father is a Toucouleur originating in the Fouta-Toro, establishes with others in Gober, the west of the Lac Chad at the 18th century. He is regarded as a scientist a saint man, from where the name of Usman daN Folio (the son of the scientist).
    • Usman studies religious sciences. He criticizes the Moslems of Gober with which he reproaches for not observing strictly the rules of the Coran, and carries out during several years a life of travelling preacher. Returned in Degel, its influence becomes so large that Natafa, sarkin (king) of Gober, anxious of its presence, tries to obstruct its action and in vain tries to make it assassinate.
    • When Younfa succeeds his/her Natafa father, its relations with the partisans of Usman enveniment. The Moslems are persecuted. Usman, which took the title of sheik, sees approaching him several farmers haoussa and many pastors peuls. Younfa decides to face directly the sheik of Degel (1804).

  • South Africa: Famine at the Langeni.
  • Forwarding of Da Costa in Angola and to the Mouths of the Zambezi.
  • Beginning of the reign of Younfa, sarkin (king) of the Gober.

Asia

  • March 25th:
    • the Dutchmen recover all their colonies except Ceylon with the Peace of Amiens but lose them again when peace is broken. The authorities of Batavia intend to follow an independent policy with respect to the France and of the the United Kingdom. Java knows a boom then and sells its production (coffee, sugar, spices) in direction of the neutrals (Danish and American), until in 1807, year when the Denmark enters in war and where Jefferson interdict with its compatriots to leave the American ports.
    • Ceylon becomes a colony of the British crown.
  • May 31st: Phúc Ánh overcomes the Tay Its, reunifies the Vietnam and founds, under the name of Long Gia, the imperial dynasty of the Nguyễn (fine in 1883).
  • June: Beginning of the second war anglo-marathe in India (end in 1805). The British seize the territories of the marathes, weakened by their defeat against the Afghans, after three years of engagements. The French Perron, who orders the army of Sindhia, is overcome on several occasions.
  • December 31st: Treaty of Bassein in India between the Marathes and the British. It imposes British protectorate on the west of the Dekkan, with the hands of Marathes framed by the French and marks the decline of the French influence in the area.

  • the Siam seizes Battambang to the Kampuchea.
  • the Sikh Ranjit Singh, appointed governor of Lahore by the king of Afghanistan, seizes the holy city of Amritsar with an army organized with the European one.

Oceania & the Pacific

  • January: The French explorer Nicolas Baudin, charged to chart the southern part of the continent, leaves Sydney for the islands of the Détroit of Bottom, explores the Western and southernmost coasts, collecting a great number of specimens of animals (discovery of the Ornithorynque and echidna, mammalian oviparous animals). Charged with observing the wild people, it brings back portraits of the indigenous of Tasmanie realized by Petit and Lesueur.
  • Inspection of all the coast Australia by the British navigator Matthew Flinders (fine in 1803).

The Middle East & Arab World

  • the French troops are evacuated of Egypt.
  • the Porte fails to restore its authority in Egypt. The viceroy `Umar Makram does not obtain supports it religious authorities, which prefer Mohammed Ali to him, an officer of Albanian origin.

  • Bonaparte considers a forwarding against Algiers, “because its armed robberies are the shame of Europe and Modern times”.

  • Beginning of the expansion Wahhabite in Arabia: the emir of the Nedjd 'Abd Al 'Aziz ibn Sa' ud carries out a forwarding against Karbala, Holy City of the Chiisme, in the Iraqi south.

Europe

  • January 25th: Beginning of the Italian Republic of French obedience (end in 1804). The République cisalpine becomes the Italian Republic, and receives with Lyon a centralized constitution of type year VIII. The populations are not consulted. The Republic contributes to maintains the French troops in parking on its ground, is forced to give up the anticlerical measurements previously taken and subjected to a preserving Constitution supporting the land ownership. Melzi d' Eril becomes vice-president of the new State. It sets up certain reforms and succeeds in eliminating criminality and the armed robbery by creation from a special court and gendarmerie.
    • the civic equality in Italian Republic supports the landowners, who repurchase the national goods sold with an aim of reducing the public deficit. The tax system is restructured: the tax on the grounds remains heavy and the customs tariffs are conceived for the manufactured exportation of products agricultural and the product imports.
  • March 25th: The Paix of Amiens puts an end to the Second coalition (the United Kingdom, Russia, Turkey) against the France. It confirms the Traité of Campoformio.
  • August 26th (8 Fructidor year X): senatus consult attaching the isle of Elba to France. The island has a deputy with the legislative Body, which carries the members of this body with 301.
  • September 8th of the Calendrier Julien : Ukase on the rights and the duties of the Russian Senate, higher of judicial control and administrative body. Proclamation creating 8 ministries to replace the colleges of Pierre Large the (War, Navy, Foreign affairs, Justice, Interior, Finances, State education, Trade).
    • Kotchoubei, Minister of Interior Department (1802 - 1807). Adam Czartoryski (1770 - 1861), Foreign Minister (1802 - 1806)
  • September 11th: The Piedmont is attached to the France.
  • September 18th the Swiss République capitulates vis-a-vis the federalists, the capacity returns to the cantons at the time of the federal Diète of Schwytz chaired by Alois von Reding.
  • October 9th: The Duché of Parma is attached to the France.
  • October: the France invades the Suisse.
    • Fondation of the Rhone-native République formed by the Were worth member then Swiss République. The Rhone-native Republic will disappear in 1810 by its annexation with the French Empire.

  • the United Kingdom: Henry Addington, re-elected, is given up little by little by its majority. The group of Pitt takes again its ascending on the Communes and pushes with a policy of firmness aiming at blocking the French expansion.
  • the boyards of Valachie and Moldavie, supported by the Russians, obtain Hatticherif fixing at a seven years minimum the reign of the voïévodes, and limiting their dismissal to the agreement of the governments Othoman and Russian.
  • Adam Czartoryski, friend and Foreign Minister of the tsar Alexandre Ier of Russia tries the reconstitution of the Poland modernized under the aegis of the Romanov. He endeavors to promote a policy favorable to the szlachta and the Polish culture, and considers the rebuilding of liberal Europe by alliance with the the United Kingdom.
  • Beginning of the production of beet sugar in the central provinces of the Russian empire.
  • Construction of the first threshing-machines in the factory of the Wilson British, with Moscow.

France

See also: 1802 in France

Arts & cultures

See also: 1802 in music, 1802 in literature, 1802 with the theater

  • April 21st: Re-establishment of the university of Dorpat.

Sciences and technology

See also: 1802 in science

Sports

  • the German explorer Alexandre de Humboldt climbing the mount Chimborazo (Ecuador) in the Andes establishing a record of altitude.

Births in 1802

Death in 1802

See too

Beats-smg: 1802 Be-X-old: 1802 Map-bms: 1802 Simple: 1802 Zh-yue: 1802 年

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