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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.
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
– A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
– 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.
– Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
– The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
– 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.
– France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
– Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)
– Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
– David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874)
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
– Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
– Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
– Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist and philosopher (d.1887)
– Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888)
– Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)