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Historical Event(s)
– The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
– Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
– Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
– The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
– Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
– Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
– The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
– The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
– The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
– The Atlantic founded in Boston.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician (d. 1931)
– Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (d. 1935)
– Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor (d. 1935)
– Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941)
– Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
– Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
– Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. (d. 1930)
– Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
– Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911)
– Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)