1802

Events in 1802 4

• 1802 – 1870 Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) Died 5 December 1870, aged 68 Alexandre Dumas, the French novelist and playwright behind The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, died at his son's home in Puys, France, on 5 December 1870. His historical adventure novels made him one of the most widely read authors of the nineteenth century. He died as Prussian troops advanced through the region.
• 1802 – 1894 Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) Died 20 March 1894, aged 91 Kossuth led Hungary's 1848-49 struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire and served as its regent-president before its defeat. He spent his final decades in exile, mainly in Italy, remaining a symbol of Hungarian nationalism. His death in Turin prompted mass mourning and a huge funeral procession in Budapest.
• 1802 – 1885 Victor Hugo French novelist and poet Hugo wrote Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, combining Romantic storytelling with social critique.
• 1802 – 1884 Elias Lönnrot Compiler of Kalevala A physician and philologist who collected Finnish folk oral traditions to create the national epic, the Kalevala.