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Historical Event(s)
– Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
– Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
– Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
– At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
– Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
– Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
– French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
– Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
– Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
– Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
Who Were Born On ?
– Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
– Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
– James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
– Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1943)
– Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
– Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (d. 1944)
– King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
– Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
– Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
– Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)