Year1802
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1802
Lieutenant-colonel Roberts published a plan of Porto Santo.
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1802
Miguel Fitzgerald brought the first English cattle and long-wool sheep to Madeira.
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1802
Bernardo Francisco Lobato Machado was born in Madeira.
Lobato Machado (Bernardo Francisco) Bernardo Francisco Lobato Machado
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1802
Dr J. Adams was licensed by the governor and captain-general to vaccinate foundlings against smallpox, apparently the first vaccination in Madeira; the Funchal town council received his request for foundlings on 27 October 1802.
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1802
The workshops of the Fortaleza do Pico expanded greatly.
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1802
A famine on Porto Santo required relief supplies.
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25 January 1802
British troops embarked from Madeira, ending the first British occupation of the island.
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20 March 1802
Minister Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho informed the captain-general of Madeira of the Prince Regent's satisfaction with the progress of cotton growing on the island.
Cotton plant Rodrigo de Sousa CoutinhoJohn VIJosé Manuel da Câmara Madeira
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4 August 1802–7 August 1802
The botanist Robert Brown stayed in Madeira.
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13 August 1802
An edict of the governor and captain-general prohibited estufas (wine-heating stoves) in Madeira.
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30 August 1802
An explosion aboard a Portuguese ship at Funchal killed 32 people.
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2 September 1802
António da Luz Pita was born at Ponta do Sol.
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4 September 1802
Augusto Frederico de Castilho, later Visconde de Castilho, was born in Lisbon.
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13 November 1802
The Funchal council held its first session in its house on the Largo da Sé.
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4 December 1802
Richard Thomas Lowe, clergyman and naturalist, was born.
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22 December 1802
The Senate of Funchal fixed the seating order at its sessions, ruling that the juiz do povo should sit on a low chair above the eldest of the mesteres.
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23 December 1802
Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses was born in Funchal.
Drumond de Meneses (Sérvulo) Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses Funchal