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Historical Event(s)
– Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
– The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
– Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
– Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
– Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
– Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
– Battle of Mišar during the Serbian revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
– Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
– The French Army enters Berlin.
– Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
Who Were Born On ?
– Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
– Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
– Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
– Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman (d. 1872)
– Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
– Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
– Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)
– Horace Abbott, American iron manufacturer (d. 1887)
– Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
– Juan Seguín, Tejano commander during Texas Revolution (d. 1890)