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Historical Event(s)
– Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
– Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
– John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
– Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy’s foremost opera writers.
– The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
– Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
– John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
– The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
– Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
– The University of Notre Dame is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923)
– Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
– Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
– Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
– Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (d. 1909)
– Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American publisher, journalist, suffragist and civil rights leader (d. 1924)
– Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
– Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
– Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899)
– Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician; (d. 1899)