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Historical Event(s)
– Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
– Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
– Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
– Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
– War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
– Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
– British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
– In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
– The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
– War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed. It was the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
– Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876)
– Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
– Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer (d. 1887)
– Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
– Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
– Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
– Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
– Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian writer and professor (d. 1888)
– Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter (d. 1878)