Historical Events In 1802

Jan 03   Feliks Ostrowski, composer   

Jan 05   John Murray names Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.   

Jan 06   Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)   

Jan 13   Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright   

Jan 14   Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59   

Jan 19   [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831).   

Jan 22   Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY).   

Jan 25   Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic   

Jan 25   Napoleon elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic.   

Jan 26   Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library.   

Jan 26   The Italian republic created January 26 from the former Cisalpine republic with Napoleon Bonaparte as president annexes Piedmont September 21 and annexes Parma and Piacenza in October   

Jan 27   Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer, dies at 42   

Jan 29   John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress.   

Jan 29   John Beckley of Virginia appointed inaugural Librarian of Congress.   

Jan 31   Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero.   

Feb 02   1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents).   

Feb 02   Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist.   

Feb 04   Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)   

Feb 06   Charles Wheatstone, English physicist/musician [or Feb 7].   

Feb 08   Simon Willard patents banjo clock.   

Feb 10   In London England Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being inaugural to cross the North American continent by land   

Feb 11   Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany).   

Feb 20   Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer.   

Feb 21   George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882   

Feb 26   Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)   

Feb 26   Victor Hugo, French novelist and playwright is born.   

Feb 27   William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, Lord George Bentinck.   

Mar 07   Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50.   

Mar 16   George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868.   

Mar 16   Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point NY).   

Mar 16   Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY).   

Mar 16   US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)   

Mar 16   West Point, the inaugural United States Military Academy, opens its doors   

Mar 24   Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP   

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Jan 03   Feliks Ostrowski, composer was born in the year 1802.   

Jan 03   Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898) was born in the year 1802.   

Jan 06   In the year 1802 birth of ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)   

Jan 13   Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright was born on this day in history.   

Jan 19   On this day in history birth of [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831)   

Jan 22   Richard Upjohn, US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY) was born in the year 1802.   

Jan 31   On this day in history birth of jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero   

Feb 02   In the year 1802 birth of jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist   

Jan 14   Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59 in the year 1802.   

Jan 27   In the year 1802 johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer, dies at 42   

Feb 02   On this day in history death of welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)   

Feb 26   Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718) died in the year 1802.   

Mar 07   On this day in history johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50   

Mar 29   Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

May 02   Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762) died on this day in history.   

Jun 28   In the year 1802 johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60