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Historical Event(s)
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
– Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
– In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
– The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
– Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
– 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.
– 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 Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
– Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
– David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874)
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
– Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888)
– Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
– Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (d. 1864)
– Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858)
– John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
– Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)