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Historical Event(s)
– HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
– The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
– In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
– The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
– The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
– P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
– HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
– Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
– The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
– The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)
– Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908)
– John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
– King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
– Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
– František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
– Thomas W. Knox, American author (d. 1896)
– Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
– Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
– Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)