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Historical Event(s)
– The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
– Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
– Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
– The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
– After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their “Corps of Discovery” begin their arduous journey home.
– 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.
– Prussia declares war on France.
– Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
– Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
– Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
– Queen Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1878)
– Catherine Labouré, French visionary and saint (d. 1876)
– John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
– Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885)
– Juan Seguín, Tejano commander during Texas Revolution (d. 1890)
– William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)