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Events:
February 12 - Chile gains its independence from Spain.
March 11 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.
April 4 - The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13
red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be
added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
December 3 - Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.
December 24 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber.
December 25 - The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in
Oberndorf, Austria).
Karl XIV Johan becomes King of Sweden.
Anglo-Chinese College founded by Robert Morrison in Malacca.
Births:
April 8 -
King Christian IX of Denmark.
April 29 - Emperor
Alexander II of Russia.
May 5 -
Karl Marx, German political philosopher.
July 11 -
Jacoba van den Houten.
July 30 -
Emily Bronte, British novelist.
September 20 -
Jacob van den Houten.
September 27 -
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, chemist.
October 9 -
Lena van den Houten.
October 18 -
Edward Ord, US army officer.
November 7 -
Plona van den Houten.
November 26 -
Aagtje Beije.
December 13 -
Mary Todd Lincoln, future First Lady of the United States.
December 16 -
Willemtje van Eeuwen.
Frederick Douglass.
Deaths:
May 10 -
Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot.
August 14 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
October 13 -
Dingeman (Dingeman Gertse) Fransman.
October 28 -
Abigail Adams, first lady.
Johann David Wyss, author of Swiss Family Robinson.
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