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Historical Event(s)
– Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
– Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
– Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
– Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
– Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
– Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
– 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.
– Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
– The Royal Opera House in London opens.
– Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
Who Were Born On ?
– Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-his death) (d. 1865)
– William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
– Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
– Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)
– François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)
– Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
– Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
– John A. Dahlgren, American Navy admiral (d. 1870)