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Historical Event(s)
– The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
– The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
– Alexis St. Martin accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont’s studies on digestion.
– 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.
– 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.
– Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
– Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
– Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
– Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
– Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
– Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
– Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
– Gregor Mendel, German scientist, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
– Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
– Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)