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Historical Event(s)
– An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
– Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
– Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
– Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
– Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
– Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
– The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
– Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
– The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today’s heartland states of the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (d. 1877)
– Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome (d. 1832)
– Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai/American conjoined twins (d. 1874)
– Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (d. 1896)
– Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American religious figure (d. 1876)
– Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
– Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
– Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
– Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
– Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)