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Historical Event(s)
– Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras were captured during the Action of Picheuta.
– The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
– Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
– An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
– Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
– Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
– At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
– The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
– Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893)
– Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
– Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
– Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
– Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
– Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
– Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
– Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark (d. 1898)
– Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
– Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet (d. 1845)