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Historical Event(s)
– The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
– Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
– Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont’s studies on digestion.
– Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
– José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
– Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
– Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
– Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
– American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
Who Were Born On ?
– Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894)
– Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
– Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
– Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)
– Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
– Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
– Mathew Brady, American photographer (d. 1896)
– Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
– Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
– Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)