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Events:
February 23 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college.
March 25 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the
Greek War of Independence.
July 10 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from
Spain.
July 28 - Peru declares independence from Spain.
August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as
a weekly newspaper.
September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
August 10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
November 16 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe,
New Mexico and sells his merchandise for a huge profit (he immediately planned to return
the following year over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail).
In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the
John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing
a "lewd and obscene" novel.
Births:
January 8 -
James Longstreet, Confederate General († 1904).
January 17 -
Cornelia van Seters.
February 3 -
Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States († 1910).
February 6 -
Maatje de Witte.
February 11 -
Hermann Allmers, writer († 1902).
February 11 -
Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist who dug out the
Sphinx († 1881).
February 13 -
Andries van den Houten.
February 17 -
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez († 1861).
February 19 -
August Schleicher, German linguist († 1868).
February 20 -
Johannes van den Houten.
April 9 -
Maatje van den Houten.
April 9 -
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer († 1867).
May 8 -
Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and recipient of the Nobel Prize
in peace 1901 († 1910).
May 17 -
Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist († 1897).
July 18 -
Pauline Garcia-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer († 1910).
August 10 -
Jay Cooke, financier († 1905).
October 13 -
Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician († 1902).
November 11 -
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer († 1881).
Deaths:
January 4 -
Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (* 1774).
February 23 -
John Keats, British poet, dies in Rome (* 1795).
March 13 -
John Hunter - second governor of New South Wales (* 1737).
May 5 -
Napoleon I of France (* 1769).
May 14 -
Maartje Witte.
May 19 -
Camille Jordan, French politician (* 1771).
September 9 -
Teuntje Jacobse Vreeswijk.
September 10 -
Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian.
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