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Historical Event(s)
– Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
– Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
– Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon’s forces, is executed.
– Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
– John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
– The French occupy Amsterdam.
– Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
– Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
– A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
– Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
Who Were Born On ?
– Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
– Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
– William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
– Charles Clark, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
– Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
– Cassius Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
– George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
– Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
– William Froude, British naval architect (d. 1879)
– Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (d. 1892)