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Historical Event(s)
– London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
– Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
– 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.
– Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
– Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
– On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
– Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
– Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
– The Royal Opera House in London opens.
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)
– Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
– Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
– Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)
– Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter, author of Struwwelpeter (d. 1894)
– Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
– John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist (d. 1851)
– John A. Dahlgren, American Navy admiral (d. 1870)