Franz Aepinus, German-Russian philosopher and academic (b. 1724)
Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus (13 December 1724 – 10 August 1802) was a German mathematician, scientist, and natural philosopher residing in the Russian Empire. Aepinus is best known for his researches, theoretical and experimental, in electricity and magnetism.
1802Aug, 10
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- 28Mar
2 Pallas
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered. - 26Apr
Émigré
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. - 28May
Louis Delgrès
In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops - 4Jul
United States Military Academy
At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. - 3Sep
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.