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Historical Event(s)
– Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
– War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
– War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
– Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
– Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
– The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth’s climate for the next two years.
– The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
– Talleyrand becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
– Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
– the U.S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
Who Were Born On ?
– David Davis, American politician and jurist; United States Senator from Illinois and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1886)
– James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
– Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
– Edward Clark, American politician (d. 1880)
– Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
– Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
– Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
– Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
– John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
– Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian operatic soprano, 2nd wife of Giuseppe Verdi (d. 1897)