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 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.
• 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.
• 6 February - Gustave de Beaumont, magistrate, prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville.
• 26 February - Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist and statesman.
• 5 May - Jean-Joseph Gaume, Roman Catholic theologian and author.
• 6 May - Charles Nicholas Aubé, physician and entomologist.
• 22 June - Émile de Girardin, journalist, publicist and politician.

  July to December

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

  Full date unknown

• Eugène Flachat, civil engineer.

  Deaths

January to June

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

  July to December

• 11 July - Alexandre Dumas, lawyer, notary, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.
• 15 July - Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, politician and journalist.
• 22 July - Xavier Bichat, anatomist and pathologist.
• 24 July - Joseph Ducreux, painter and engraver.
• 12 August - Louis Lebègue Duportail, soldier and Minister.
• 3 September - Antoine Richepanse, Revolutionary general and colonial administrator.
• 11 October - André Michaux, botanist and explorer.
• 30 October - Charles Alexandre de Calonne, statesman.
• 2 November - Charles Leclerc, General and brother-in-law of Napoleon I of France.