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Historical Event(s)
– Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
– Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
– Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
– Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
– May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
– The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
– The French occupy Amsterdam.
– 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.
– A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
Who Were Born On ?
– Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
– Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
– Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
– William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
– Thomas Adolphus Trollope, British author and journalist, (d. 1892)
– Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, British lexicographer (d. 1897)
– Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
– Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Italian diplomat and politician (d. 1861)
– Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
– William Froude, British naval architect (d. 1879)