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Historical Event(s)
– The Illinois Territory is created.
– King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland’s four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
– Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
– The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
– The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
– Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
– The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
– Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
– In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
Who Were Born On ?
– Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
– Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
– Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
– Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter, author of Struwwelpeter (d. 1894)
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
– Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
– John A. Dahlgren, American Navy admiral (d. 1870)
– Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
– William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)