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Historical Event(s)
– The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
– Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
– Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
– Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
– Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
– British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
– Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
– Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
– Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
– The French Army enters Berlin.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
– Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
– Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
– Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman (d. 1872)
– Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
– Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)
– Catherine Labouré, French visionary and saint (d. 1876)
– Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885)
– Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
– Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871)