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Historical Event(s)
– Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
– John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
– War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
– Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
– The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
– Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
– War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
– The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
– Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
– War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
Who Were Born On ?
– Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1885)
– Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
– Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1880)
– Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
– William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
– Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
– Moses Hess, French/German-born Jewish socialist and precursor of Zionism (d. 1875)
– James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
– Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
– Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)