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Historical Event(s)
– A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
– The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
– Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
– The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
– United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
– John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
– Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
– France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
– The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
– The first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
– Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
– Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
– Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
– Franz Bopp, German linguist (d. 1867)
– Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
– Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (d. 1869)
– Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
– Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
– Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871)