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Phineas Quimby
1802Feb, 16

Phineas Quimby

Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866)
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866) was an American clockmaker, mentalist and mesmerist. His work is widely recognized as foundational to the New Thought spiritual movement.

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Events on 1802

  • 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.