1802
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Art and culture
- September 3 – William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge.
- Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte published
- Treviranus uses the term biology for the first time.
- Thomas Wedgwood publishes an account of his experiments in photography, along with Humphry Davy. Since they had no means of fixing the image, their photographs quickly faded.
- William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas.
- Ludwig van Beethoven performs his Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
- The English Parliament forbids pauper apprentices.
- Paris Salon of 1802
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Births
- December 3 – Constantin Guys (d. 1892)
- February 26 – Victor Hugo, French author (d. 1885)
- March 7 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter (d. 1873)
- March 12 – Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian bibliophile (d. 1879)
- July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French author (d. 1870)
- Émile de Girardin (d. 1881)
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Deaths
- April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
- November 9 – Thomas Girtin, English artist (b. 1775)
- November 15 – George Romney, English artist (b. 1734)
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