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Historical Event(s)
– Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
– The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
– Battle of San Domingo British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
– After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their “Corps of Discovery” begin their arduous journey home.
– British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
– Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
– Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
– Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
– Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
– Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
Who Were Born On ?
– Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
– Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)
– Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman (d. 1872)
– Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
– Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)
– Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)
– John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
– William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1864–65) (d. 1869)
– William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872)