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Historical Event(s)
– Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
– The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
– Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
– Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
– In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
– Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
– Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
– Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
– Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
– The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
– David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874)
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
– Wilford Woodruff, American religious figure (d. 1898)
– Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
– Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
– Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
– Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
– Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858)
– Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)