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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.
– Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South 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.
– 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.
– Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
– 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 ?
– Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
– John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
– Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
– Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
– Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887)
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
– Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, American religious figure (d. 1879)
– Benjamin Russell, American artist (d. 1885)
– Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
– Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)