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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
– Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
– The Second Serbian Uprising – a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
– 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.
– Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
– End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
– Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
– Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
Who Were Born On ?
– Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
– John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
– Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1864)
– Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
– John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
– St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate general (d. 1870)
– John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
– Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
– John Mitchel, Irish nationalist (d. 1875)
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragette (d. 1902)