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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– 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”.
– George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
– David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
– The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
– 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.
– 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.
– Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
– Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
– Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist (d. 1889)
– George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
– Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (d. 1879)
– Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
– Benjamin Franklin White, shape note “singing master”, and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp (d. 1879)
– Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
– Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish botanist (d. 1861)
– Nat Turner, American slave and slave rebellion figure (d. 1831)