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Historical Event(s)
– An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
– Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
– 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.
– Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
– Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
– First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
– The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
– The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
– Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
– Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
Who Were Born On ?
– Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (d. 1896)
– Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)
– William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
– Elisha Otis, American inventor (d. 1861)
– Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
– Queen Augusta of Saxe-Weimar of Prussia (d. 1890)
– Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
– Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
– Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
– Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1882)