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Historical Event(s)
– The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
– The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
– Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
– The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
– The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
– First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
– Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
– Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
– French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano – French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
– French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
Who Were Born On ?
– Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
– John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
– Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)
– Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist (d. 1832)
– Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
– Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
– Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
– Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
– Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869)