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Historical Event(s)
– The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
– Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
– The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today’s Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
– The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
– John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
– Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
– A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
Who Were Born On ?
– Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
– Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
– Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913)
– Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
– Arthur Tooth, English Anglican clergyman (d. 1931)
– Frederick Halsey, English Conservative Party politician (d. 1927)
– Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
– Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
– Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
– János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher in Hungary (d. 1917)