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Historical Event(s)
– Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
– Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
– Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
– May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
– John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
– Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
– Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
– The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
– A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
– 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 ?
– Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
– Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
– Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
– Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
– John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
– Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
– Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
– Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
– George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
– Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)