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Historical Event(s)
– The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
– With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
– George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
– The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
– Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
– Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
– Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
– US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
– The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
– War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
– Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
– George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
– Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
– Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose French archbishop of Rouen and senator (d. 1883)
– Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military commander and Ecuadorian politician (d. 1864)
– Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
– Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
– Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)