Births on August 25

Nikolaus Lenau

Born on August 25, 1802

Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1850)

Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet.

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Events on 1802

28 Mar

2 Pallas
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
21 Apr

Wahhabi sack of Karbala
Twelve thousand Wahhabis under Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad, invaded city of Karbala, killed over three thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
26 Apr

Émigré
Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
4 Jul

United States Military Academy
At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
3 Sep

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.

Births on August 25

Nikolaus Lenau

Born on August 25, 1802

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Events on 1802

2 Pallas

Wahhabi sack of Karbala

Émigré

United States Military Academy

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802