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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– 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.
– Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
– The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
– Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
– The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
– France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
– The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)
– Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891)
– Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
– Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
– Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
– Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888)
– Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
– Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
– Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858)
– Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)