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Historical Event(s)
– Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
– The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
– Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
– The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
– A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
– Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
– the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
– Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (“Unobtainable Chamber”).
– The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
– The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
Who Were Born On ?
– William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (d. 1858)
– Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer (d. 1895)
– Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
– Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
– Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
– Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist (d. 1899)
– George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
– Georg August Rudolph, German politician (d. 1893)
– Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
– Morrison Waite, American jurist (d. 1888)