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| 1802 |
| | | The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours | |
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| 1802 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison | |
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| 1802 |
| | | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe | |
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| 1802 |
| | | Josephine's daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, marries Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte | |
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| 1802 |
| | | At Heiligenstadt, near Vienna, Beethoven writes a letter, to be read only after his death, confronting the tragedy of his inexorable decline into deafness | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1802 |
| | | English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835 | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Constitution of the Year XII (the twelfth year of the French Revolutionary Calendar) makes Napoleon First Consul for life | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The family of John Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman) move to Grove House (now Grey Court House), where they stay for five years | |
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