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Historical Event(s)
– Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
– Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
– During André Masséna’s retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
– 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
– Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
– 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.
– Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
– Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry George Liddell, father of Alice Liddell (d. 1898)
– Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (d. 1877)
– Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (d. 1896)
– Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
– Elisha Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
– John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (d. 1886)
– Queen Augusta of Saxe-Weimar of Prussia (d. 1890)
– Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American religious figure (d. 1876)
– Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
– Alexandru Hâjdeu, Russian writer of Romanian origins (d. 1872)