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Historical Event(s)
– Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
– New Roman Republic established
– In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
– The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
– Hungary becomes a republic.
– Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
– After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
– American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
– The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
– A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)
– Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman (d. 1895)
– Sir Rickman Godlee, English surgeon (d. 1925)
– Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930)
– Jacob August Riis, American journalist (d. 1914)
– Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
– Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Czech-born Queen consort of Bavaria (d. 1919)
– Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
– Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist (d. 1910)
– James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)