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Historical Event(s)
– Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
– Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
– The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
– 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.
– Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
– The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
– 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.
– Argentina declares independence from Spain.
– the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
– Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alexander H. Bullock, American politician and 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
– William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (d. 1858)
– Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
– Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
– Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
– Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
– Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
– John Curwen, British music educator (d. 1880)
– August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
– August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)