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Historical Event(s)
– The Illinois Territory is created.
– Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
– 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.
– 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.
– Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
– The Royal Opera House in London opens.
– 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 ?
– Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
– Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
– Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
– William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (d. 1868)
– Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
– Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
– Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)
– Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
– Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist (d. 1887)
– William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)