1802 in the United States

1802 in the United States
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Events from the year 1802 in the United States.

Incumbents

Events

June 1: The Patent Office formed

• March 16 – Congress authorizes the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
• April 19 – The Judiciary Act of 1802 is enacted, reorganizing the federal court system.
• April 30 – The Enabling Act of 1802 authorizes the creation of Ohio from the Northwest Territory and sets a precedent for the creation of future states from the western territories.
• June 1 – William Thornton is appointed the first superintendent of the United States Patent Office.^[1]
• July 4 – At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
• October 2 – First Barbary War: Fighting ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
• October 12 – Joseph Gardner Swift and Simeon Magruder Levy become the first graduates of the United States Military Academy.

Births

• April 2 – Archibald Dixon, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1852 to 1855 (died 1876)
• April 4 – Dorothea Dix, mental health reformer (died 1887)
• May 10 – James Westcott, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1849 (died 1880)
• June 10 – James W. Bradbury, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1847 to 1853 (died 1901)
• June 30 – Benjamin Fitzpatrick, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1848 to 1849 and from 1853 to 1861 (died 1869)
• August 10 – Dixon Hall Lewis, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (died 1848)
• November 5 – James F. Trotter, U.S. Senator from Mississippi in 1838 (died 1866)

Deaths

• May 22 – Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States (born 1731)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1790–1819)

References

Further reading

• A Register of Marriages and Deaths, 1802. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1900), pp. 207–211
• W. L. McAtee. Journal of Benjamin Smith Barton on a Visit to Virginia, 1802. Castanea, Vol. 3, No. 7/8 (November – December, 1938), pp. 85–117
• Elizabeth G. McPherson. The Southern States and the Reporting of Senate Debates, 1789-1802. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May 1946), pp. 223–246
• Bennard B. Perlman. Baltimore Mansion, 1801-03. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March, 1955), pp. 26–28
• C. Richard Arena. Philadelphia-Mississippi Valley trade and deposit closure of 1802. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 30, No. 1 (January 1963), pp. 28–45
• Sidney Forman. Why the United States Military Academy was Established in 1802. Military Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1965), pp. 16–28
• Elizabeth Gaspar Brown, Augustus B. Woodward, J. H. Kearney. A Jeffersonian's Recommendations for A Lawyer's Education: 1802. The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 13, No. 2 (April, 1969), pp. 139–144
• Jerry W. Knudson. The Jeffersonian Assault on the Federalist Judiciary, 1802–1805; Political Forces and Press Reaction. The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January, 1970), pp. 55–75
• Howard A. Ohline. Georgetown, South Carolina: Racial Anxieties and Militant Behavior, 1802. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 73, No. 3 (July, 1972), pp. 130–140
• Theodore J. Crackel. Jefferson, Politics, and the Army: An Examination of the Military Peace Establishment Act of 1802. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1982), pp. 21–38
• John W. Wagner. New York City Concert Life, 1801-5. American Music, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 53–69

External links

• Media related to 1802 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons