See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
February 11 -
Napoleon marries
Marie-Louise of Austria.
April 19 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General
is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
May 10 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall.
May 25 - Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy from Spain and establish
a provincial government for Argentina.
July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain.
King George III of England recognized as insane.
September 8 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John
Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey
around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and
Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
September 16 - National Independence Day of the Republic of Mexico.
October 12 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join
the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria to Princess
Therese
von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
Births:
January 3 -
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish traveler.
February 11 -
Loisa Puget, composer.
February 22 -
Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (+ 1849).
February 26 -
Not Baptized child van den Houten.
March 1 -
Frederic Chopin, French-Polish composer.
March 2 -
Pope Leo XIII (+ 1903).
May 23 -
Margaret Fuller, journalist, feminist (+ 1850).
June 8 -
Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist.
July 21 -
Henri Victor Regnault chemist and physicist.
September 11 -
Sara Volaart.
October 10 -
James Wilson Marshall, contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill.
November 24 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
October 28 -
Jannetje van den Houten.
November 24 -
Jan Verton.
November 28 -
Baltus van den Houten.
Henry Rowe, Gothic architect.
Deaths:
February 28 -
Not Baptized child van den Houten.
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