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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.
– In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
– Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
– Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
– Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
– The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London.
– 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.
– The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811)
– Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862)
– Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
– Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
– Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
– John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
– Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865)
– Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
– Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
– Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)