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Historical Event(s)
– The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
– Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
– First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The “shores of Tripoli” part of the Marines’ hymn).
– Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
– French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock
– A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
– Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
– Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
– Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
Who Were Born On ?
– Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
– Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
– Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (d. 1859)
– Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
– Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
– Ferenc Toldy, German-Hungarian literary critic (d. 1875)
– Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
– Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
– Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
– Joseph Smith, Jr., American religious leader (d. 1844)