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Historical Event(s)
– The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
– After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
– The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
– Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
– The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
– The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
– Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
– At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
– Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
– The Treaty of St. Louis (1825) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
Who Were Born On ?
– Bayard Taylor, American poet (d. 1878)
– Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
– George Inness, American painter (d. 1894)
– Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895)
– Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
– William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
– István Türr, Hungarian soldier and engineer (d. 1908)
– Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893)
– William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
– Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)