Editing 1802 (section)

=== October–December ===
* October 2 – War ends between Sweden and [[Ottoman Tripolitania|Tripoli]]. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
* October 15 – French Army General [[Michel Ney]] enters [[Switzerland]] with 40,000 troops, on orders of Napoleon Bonaparte.<ref>Andrew Roberts, ''Napoleon: A Life'' (Penguin, 2014)</ref>
* October 16 – The port of [[New Orleans]] and the lower [[Mississippi River]] are closed to American traffic by order of the city's Spanish administrator, Juan Ventura Morales, threatening the economy in the western United States, and prompting the need for the [[Louisiana Purchase]].<ref>"Mississippi River", by Gene A. Smith, in ''The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia'', Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2002) p226</ref>
* October 26 – A powerful [[1802 Vrancea earthquake|7.9 earthquake]] shakes the Romanian district of [[Vrancea County|Vrancea]] destroying hundreds of buildings, triggering landslides and killing 4 people. This earthquake is considered one of the strongest to have shaken Europe.
* November 16 – The newly elected British Parliament is inaugurated by King George III, who tells the members, "In my intercourse with foreign powers, I have been actuated by a sincere disposition of the maintenance of peace," but adds that "My conduct will be invariably regulated by a due consideration of the actual situation of Europe, and by a watchful solicitude for the permanent welfare of my people."<ref>William Belsham, ''History of Great Britain: From the Revolution, 1688, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802'', Volume 12 (Phillips, 1805) p485</ref>
* November 23 – [[East Indiaman]] ''[[Melville Castle (1786 EIC ship)|Vryheid]]'', in the service of the [[Batavian Republic]], is shipwrecked in a gale off [[Hythe, Kent]], in the south of England; only 18 of 472 on board survive.
* December 2 – The [[Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802|Health and Morals of Apprentices Act]] in the United Kingdom comes into effect, regulating conditions for [[child labour]] in factories. Although poorly enforced, it pioneers a series of [[Factory Acts]].