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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
– Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
– The Serbian revolution begins.
– Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
– Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
– High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
– The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
– New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
– Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.
– The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
– Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
– Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)
– George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
– Richard Owen, English biologist (d. 1892)
– Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
– Townsend Harris, the 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
– Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
– Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)