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Historical Event(s)
– University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
– The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
– One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
– Hong Kong Police Force, the world’s second, Asia’s first modern police force is established.
– Persian Prophet The Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábism. He announces to the world the coming of “He whom God shall make manifest”. He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
– Declaration of the Báb: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
– Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
– The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
– Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
– The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
– Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
– Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
– William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
– Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
– Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
– Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
– Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
– Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)