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Historical Event(s)
– 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 postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
– York Minster is badly damaged by fire
– Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
– The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
– Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
– 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 ?
– Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
– Titu Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1917)
– Frederick Wicks, English author and inventor (d. 1910)
– Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
– Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902)
– Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
– Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
– Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
– Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
– Thomas Nast, German-born American political cartoonist (d. 1902)