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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
– The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
– Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
– Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
– Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
– The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor’s newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor’s men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
– First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
– Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
– Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
– William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
– Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
– Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
– William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
– Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
– Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
– Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892)