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.

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 beseiged 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 Lebèque Duportail, soldier and Minister (b.1743).
*Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, politician and journalist (b.1754).

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