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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.
– Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
– The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
– The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
– 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 United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869)
– Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862)
– Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)
– James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet (d. 1849)
– Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
– Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
– Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
– Theodore Dwight Weld, American abolitionist (d. 1895)
– Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)