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Historical Event(s)
– French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country in North America after the United States
– The Serbian revolution begins.
– The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
– Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
– The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
– Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
– The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
– Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
– The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
– At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
– Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
– Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
– Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885)
– Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887)
– Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
– Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
– Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
– Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
– Mongkut, King of Siam(now Thailand) (d. 1868)