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Historical Event(s)
– An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
– 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.
– 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)
– János Arany, Hungarian journalist (d. 1882)
– Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
– Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
– Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
– Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
– Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
– Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet (d. 1845)
– Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)