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Historical Event(s)
– London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
– Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
– Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
– Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
– Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
– The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
– The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
– Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
– The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
– Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
Who Were Born On ?
– Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
– William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
– Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French civic planner (d. 1891)
– Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
– Manuel Montt Torres, Chilean politician (d. 1880)
– Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
– Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
– Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)