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Historical Event(s)
– Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
– Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
– The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
– Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
– Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
– With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
– First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
– A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
– First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
– United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman; 24th United States Attorney General; and 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
– King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
– Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
– 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)
– Cassius Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
– George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
– Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)