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Historical Event(s)
– The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
– The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
– The British East India Company captures Aden.
– In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
– The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
– United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
– John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
– The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
– Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
Who Were Born On ?
– Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
– Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
– Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
– Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
– Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
– Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (d. 1908)
– Frederick Halsey, English Conservative Party politician (d. 1927)
– Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
– Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
– Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)