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Historical Event(s)
– The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
– An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
– The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
– Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
– First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
– Battle of Algeciras: the French navy are defeated by the Royal Navy.
– French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
– First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
– Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
Who Were Born On ?
– Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
– John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890)
– Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855)
– James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
– Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
– Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
– Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
– Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
– Samuel Gridley Howe, American social reformer (d. 1876)
– Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)