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Historical Event(s)
– War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
– Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
– Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restorationanniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbons is delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.)
– The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
– War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
– War of 1812: Battle of Lundy’s Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall’s British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown’s Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
– Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
– Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
– The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
– London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jacob Bunn, American industrialist and financier (d. 1897)
– Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer (d. 1887)
– Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
– Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist (d. 1889)
– Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
– Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
– James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader (d. 1877)
– Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
– Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (d. 1841)
– Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)