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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
– James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
– Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
– Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
– 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.
– The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
– In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
– Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
– Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Greater Colombia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
– Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
– John Aaron Rawlins, American soldier, civil servant, and 29th United States Secretary of War (d. 1869)
– Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
– Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
– John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
– Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (d. 1908)
– Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
– Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (d. 1888)
– Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)