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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.
– The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
– A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
– Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
– Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
– The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
– Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
– HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
Who Were Born On ?
– Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
– Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer (d. 1895)
– Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
– George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
– Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
– Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)
– Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
– John Curwen, British music educator (d. 1880)
– Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)