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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.
– The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
– David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
– The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
– Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
– French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
– Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
– Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
– Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
– George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
– Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
– Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose French archbishop of Rouen and senator (d. 1883)
– Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
– Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
– Charles Goodyear, American inventor (d. 1860)