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Historical Event(s)
– An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
– Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
– Cry of Asencio, begin of the Uruguayan War of Independence
– Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
– In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington’s overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day.
– Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
– The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
– Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
– Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
– The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today’s heartland states of the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
– François Achille Bazaine, French marshal (d. 1888)
– Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860)
– Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
– John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1889)
– Elisha Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
– Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
– Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
– Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
– Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)