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Historical Event(s)
– The Illinois Territory is created.
– London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
– An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
– 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.
– Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
– The second day of the Battle of Wagram sees a French victory over the Austrian army in the largest battle yet of the Napoleonic Wars.
– Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
– Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
– In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
– Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
Who Were Born On ?
– Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
– Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
– William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
– Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
– Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter, author of Struwwelpeter (d. 1894)
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
– Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
– Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
– John A. Dahlgren, American Navy admiral (d. 1870)