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Historical Event(s)
– The British East India Company captures Aden.
– In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
– The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
– In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
– In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
– Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
– John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
– Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
– Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
– René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
– John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
– Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
– Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
– Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
– János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher in Hungary (d. 1917)