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1802
 
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The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe      
1802
 
     
Josephine's daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, marries Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte        
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      
1802
 
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The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands       
1802
 
    
English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835       
1802
 
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The Constitution of the Year XII (the twelfth year of the French Revolutionary Calendar) makes Napoleon First Consul for life       
1802
 
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The family of John Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman) move to Grove House (now Grey Court House), where they stay for five years See in Google maps   
1802
 
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King George III has the White House at Kew demolished and instructs James Wyatt to build a castellated palace by the river, which was never completed. See in Google maps   
1803
 
   
A horse-drawn railroad opens between Wandsworth and Croydon      
1803
 
    
Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back