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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.
– In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
– In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
– Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
– In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
– Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
– The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
– The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
– 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.
– In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896)
– Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
– Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist (d. 1903)
– John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922)
– Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (d. 1920)
– William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
– Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (d. 1894)
– Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
– Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist (d. 1899)
– Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)