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Historical Event(s)
– Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
– The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
– Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
– Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
– High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
– The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
– Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
– New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
– A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
– At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
– Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
– Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
– Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
– George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
– Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, American religious figure (d. 1879)
– Richard Owen, English biologist (d. 1892)
– Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
– Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)