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Historical Event(s)
– Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
– Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
– Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
– Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
– Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
– War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
– Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
– Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
– The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
– War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Paget, British surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
– Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
– Samuel Jones Tilden, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
– Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
– Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (d. 1901)
– Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist (d. 1889)
– Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
– Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
– Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
– Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)