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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.
– Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
– 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.
– Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
– 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 Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
– 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)
– Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
– David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874)
– Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891)
– Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
– Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
– Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist and philosopher (d.1887)
– Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888)
– David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
– Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858)