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Historical Event(s)
– Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
– The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
– Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
– Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
– A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
– Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
– HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
– The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
– Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
– The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
– Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
– Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
– Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (d. 1876)
– Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
– Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
– George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
– Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
– Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
– Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)