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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.
– 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.
– The Convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
– Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia’s army under General Louis Bourquin.
– 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.
– 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 ?
– Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882)
– Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
– Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
– Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
– Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
– Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
– Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
– Theodore Dwight Weld, American abolitionist (d. 1895)
– Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
– François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, French Canadian Patriote (d. 1839)