Timeline March 1802

Events in March 1802 3

• 1802 United States Military Academy founded at West Point Congress establishes the nation's first military academy President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation on 16 March 1802 establishing the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The academy was created to train engineers and officers for the small standing army. It remains the oldest continuously operating military academy in the United States.
• 1802 Treaty of Amiens Peace agreement ends the War of the Second Coalition Great Britain and France, along with Spain and the Batavian Republic, signed the Treaty of Amiens on 25 March 1802, ending nearly a decade of war. Britain agreed to return most colonial conquests, while France withdrew from Naples and Rome. The peace proved short-lived, collapsing within a year.
• 1802 Heinrich Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas Second minor planet found, reigniting debate over a "missing planet" German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers discovered the asteroid 2 Pallas on 28 March 1802, a year after Giuseppe Piazzi found Ceres. The find supported theories that a shattered planet once orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Olbers went on to propose what became known as the asteroid belt.