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Historical Event(s)
– Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
– Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
– Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
– Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
– The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
– The French occupy Amsterdam.
– The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
– Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
– United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
– Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
– Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
– Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
– Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
– Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
– Charles Clark, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
– Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
– Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
– Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
– Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (d. 1892)