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Historical Event(s)
– Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
– Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
– Gaetano Donizetti’s opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
– Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
– The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
– The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
– The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
– Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
– The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
Who Were Born On ?
– Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
– Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
– August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913)
– Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
– Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
– Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
– Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
– Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
– Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898)
– Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (d. 1901)