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Historical Event(s)
– The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
– The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
– Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
– The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
– Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
– The General Assembly’s Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
– Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
– Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
Who Were Born On ?
– Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
– Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916)
– Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
– Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
– Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, German-born wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (d. 1911)
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
– Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
– Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
– Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894)
– Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)