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Historical Event(s)
– The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
– The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
– Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
– 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.
– Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
– Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
– 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.
– José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
– Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
Who Were Born On ?
– Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1915)
– Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)
– Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
– Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
– Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
– Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1912)
– Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
– Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
– Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
– César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)