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Historical Event(s)
– Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
– Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
– Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
– Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
– The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
– Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
– Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
– The Battle of Wagram, the largest of the Napoleonic Wars.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (d. 1852)
– Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1884)
– Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
– William Barret Travis, American Battle of the Alamo figure (d. 1836)
– Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1891)
– Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
– Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
– Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
– Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)