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Historical Event(s)
– The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
– The British East India Company captures Aden.
– In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
– The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
– The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
– 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.
– The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
– A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (d. 1903)
– Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
– René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
– Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
– Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913)
– Frederick Halsey, English Conservative Party politician (d. 1927)
– Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
– August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)
– Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
– János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher in Hungary (d. 1917)