1802 in France
overview of France-related events during the year of 1802
Events from the year 1802 in France.
Incumbents
The French Consulate
Events
23 February - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres, French victory.
4 March-24 March - Haitian Revolution: Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, French victory, taking a besieged fort from Haitian forces.
25 March - Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ended hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars.
8 April - Organic Articles presented by Napoleon.
26 April - General amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
10 May - Constitutional Referendum ratified the new constitution of the Consulate, which made Napoleon Bonaparte First Consul for life.
19 May - Napoleon establishes the légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour).
20 May - Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, which had been abolished during the French Revolution.
8 June - Haitian Revolution: Revolutionary Toussaint Louverture is seized by French troops and sent to Fort de Joux prison.
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