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Historical Event(s)
– The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
– With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
– Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
– The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
– The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
– Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
– Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
– French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
– War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte’s victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
Who Were Born On ?
– Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
– Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist (d. 1895)
– Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
– James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)
– George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
– John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
– Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
– Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military commander and Ecuadorian politician (d. 1864)
– Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
– Nat Turner, American slave and slave rebellion figure (d. 1831)