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Historical Event(s)
– The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world’s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
– Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri, an important text within the Swaminarayan faith.
– The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
– The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year’s siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
– HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
– Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
– The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
– The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
– French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
– Walter Bagehot, English essayist, journalist and businessman (d. 1877)
– Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
– Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
– Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
– Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
– Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
– Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
– John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
– Carlo Collodi, Italian author (d. 1890)