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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 |
| | | English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835 | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The peace of Amiens comes to an abrupt end when Britain declares war again on France | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Napoleon assembles an invasion fleet against Britain, where Martello towers are hastily built in preparation | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The uprising by Irish nationalist Robert Emmet ends in disaster when he marches on Dublin with only about 100 men | |
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| 1803 |
| | | English chemist John Dalton reads a paper describing his Law of Partial Pressure in gases (discovered in 1801) | |
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| 1803 |
| | | At the end of his Partial Pressure paper, John Dalton makes brief mention of his radical theory of differing atomic weights | |
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