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Historical Event(s)
– Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
– Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
– Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
– The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
– Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
– English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
– Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
– The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
– In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
– The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
– Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
– Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
– Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
– John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
– Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
– Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
– Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
– Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
– Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)