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Historical Event(s)
– A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
– Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
– The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
– Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
– Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
– Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
– Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
– The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
– Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)
– Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
– Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891)
– Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
– Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
– Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858)
– John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
– Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)