1802 in France

See also: 1801 in France, other events of 1802, 1802 in France.

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Events from the year 1802 in France.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 January to June 2.2 July to December 2.3 Full date unknown 3 Deaths 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 3.3 Full date unknown 4 References

Events

• 23 February - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres, French victory.
• 4 March-24 March - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, French victory, taking a besieged fort from Haitian forces.
• 25 March - Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 8 April - Organic Articles presented by Napoleon.
• 26 April - General amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
• 10 May - Constitutional Referendum ratified the new constitution of the Consulate, which made Napoleon Bonaparte First Consul for life.
• 19 May - Napoleon establishes the légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
• 20 May - Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, which had been abolished during the French Revolution.
• 8 June - Haitian Revolution: Revolutionary Toussaint Louverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux prison.
• 11 September - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of the French First Republic.
• October - French army enters Switzerland.

Births

January to June

• 3 January - Félix Dupanloup, Bishop of Orléans (d.1878).
• 6 February - Gustave de Beaumont, magistrate, prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville (d.1865).
• 26 February - Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist and statesman (d.1885).
• 6 May - Charles Nicholas Aubé, physician and entomologist (d.1869).

July to December

• 24 July - Alexandre Dumas, père, writer (d.1870).
• 2 August - Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, photographer (d.1872).
• 24 September - Adolphe d'Archiac, geologist and paleontologist (d.1868).
• 30 September - Antoine Jérôme Balard, chemist and discoverer of bromine (d.1876).
• 10 October - Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, eldest son of Louis Bonaparte (d.1807).
• 15 October - Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, General (d.1857).
• 31 October - Benoît Fourneyron, engineer, designed the first practical water turbine (d.1867).
• 13 November - Jean Gailhac, priest (d.1890).
• 18 November - Jules Baroche, statesman and Minister (d.1870).
• 1 December - Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel, Bishop of Toronto (d.1891).

Full date unknown

• Eugène Flachat, civil engineer (d.1873).
• Jean-Joseph Gaume, Roman Catholic theologian and author (d.1879).
• Émile de Girardin, journalist, publicist and politician (d.1881).

Deaths

January to June

• 18 January - Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, astronomer (b.1718).
• 7 February - Philippe-Louis-François Badelard, soldier and surgeon (b.1728).
• 21 February - René Maugé de Cely, zoologist.
• 7 March - Clothilde of France, Princess and Queen Consort of Sardinia (b.1759).
• 1 April - Joseph Duplessis, painter (b.1725).
• 3 April - Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave, soldier, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (b.1727).

July to December

• 11 July - Alexandre Dumas, lawyer, notary, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada (b. c1726).
• 22 July - Marie François Xavier Bichat, anatomist and physiologist (b.1771).
• 24 July - Joseph Ducreux, painter and engraver (b.1735).
• 3 September - Antoine Richepanse, Revolutionary general and colonial administrator (b.1770).
• 11 October - André Michaux, botanist and explorer (b.1746).
• 30 October - Charles Alexandre de Calonne, statesman (b.1734).
• 2 November - Charles Leclerc, General and brother-in-law of Napoleon I of France (b.1772).

Full date unknown

• Louis Lebègue Duportail, soldier and Minister (b.1743).
• Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, politician and journalist (b.1754).

References