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Historical Event(s)
– Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
– The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
– The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
– Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
– Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
– Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
– In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
– Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
– Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay “To the People of Upper Canada”, published in his newspaper The Constitution.
– Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
Who Were Born On ?
– Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer (d. 1879)
– Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
– Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (d. 1915)
– Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
– Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
– George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
– Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
– Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
– Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
– Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885)