Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years: 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 - 1802 - 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807
Events March 16 - West Point is established March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur ("legion of honour") July 4 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens. August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for a lifetime September 11 - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of Napoleonic France October 2 - War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation. October - French army enters Switzerland Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims. Thomas Wedgwood produces the world's first photograph, but has no means of fixing the image, which quickly fades William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas Ludwig van Beethoven performs the Moonlight Sonata for the first time William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge Years in Topic 1802 in literature 1802 in music 1802 in science Births February 11 - Lydia Child, American author February 26 - Victor Hugo, French author July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French author July 26 - Mariano Arista, president of Mexico August 25 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French author December 15 - Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician December 23 - Sara Coleridge (fille), British scholar Deaths June 4 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, king of Sardinia November 9 - Thomas Girtin, artist November 15 - George Romney, artist November 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (* 1746)
