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Historical Event(s)
– Wake Forest University is established.
– York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
– Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
– The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
– Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders”, earning him the nickname of “The Friar-Killer”.
– In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
– Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
– The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
– Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
– The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
– Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
– Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
– Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926)
– William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
– Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867)
– Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
– Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
– José Hernández, Argentine author of Martín Fierro (d. 1886)