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Historical Event(s)
– Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
– The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
– The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
– Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
– Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
– Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
– Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
– The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
– The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor’s newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor’s men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
– With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
– Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
– Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)
– Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
– Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Italian diplomat and politician (d. 1861)
– Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
– Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
– Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
– Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)
– Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)