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Historical Event(s)
– Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
– The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
– The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
– Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
– Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
– Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
– Nat Turner’s slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
– Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
– In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
– Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Savitribai Phule, Indian social activist and educator (d. 1897)
– Jack Slade, American frontier figure (d. 1864)
– Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
– Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
– James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
– Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
– John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
– Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
– Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (d. 1910)