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Historical Event(s)
– Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
– Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
– Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
– Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
– In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington’s overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day.
– 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 first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
– Inventor John Stevens’ boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
– Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
– Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– François Achille Bazaine, French marshal (d. 1888)
– Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (d. 1877)
– Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
– John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1889)
– William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
– Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)
– Queen Augusta of Saxe-Weimar of Prussia (d. 1890)
– Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins (d. 1872)
– Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)
– Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)