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Historical Event(s)
– Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
– Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
– John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
– The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
– The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
– The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
– The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
– Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
– Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
– The University of Notre Dame is founded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer (d. 1925)
– William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
– François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)
– Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (d. 1864)
– Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911)
– Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (d. 1909)
– Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
– Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
– Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician; (d. 1899)
– Calixa Lavallée, French-Canadian composer (O Canada) (d. 1891)