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Historical Event(s)
– Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
– The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
– The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
– Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”.
– Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
– Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
– In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
– Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
– The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
– American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
– Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
– Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
– Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1912)
– Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
– Gregor Mendel, German scientist, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
– Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
– Jakov Ignjatović, Serbian novelist and prose writer (d. 1889)
– Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888)
– Louis Pasteur, French scientist (d. 1895)