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Historical Event(s)
– A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
– In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
– The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
– A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
– Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
– In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
– Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
– Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
– The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
Who Were Born On ?
– Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
– Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891)
– Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
– Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
– Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
– Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and political figure (d. 1882)
– Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
– David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
– Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)