See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
March 30 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
May 24 - Battle of Pichincha: Simón Bolívar secures the independence of Quito.
July 8 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
September 7 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
September 16 - George Canning appointed British foreign secretary.
October 12 - Pedro I of Brazil declared constitutional emperor of the Brazilian Empire.
October-December - Congress of Verona at which Russia, Austria and Prussia approve
French intervention in Spain.
December 1 - Dom Pedro is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.
Hieroglyphs deciphered by Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion using the
Rosetta Stone.
Galileo Galilei's Dialogue taken off the Index librorum prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic
Church's list of banned books.
Ashley's Hundred leave from St. Louis setting off a major increase in fur trade.
Births:
January 4 -
Georg Büchmann, philologist (+ 1884).
January 6 -
Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist.
January 16 -
Pieter van den Houten.
January 19 -
Aaltje van Loozen.
January 28 -
Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada.
February 16 - Sir
Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (+ 1911).
April 3 -
Edward Everett Hale, writer, (+ 1909).
May 26 -
Edmond de Goncourt, writer (+ 1896).
June 10 -
Kornelia van den Houten.
July 18- Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta of Cambridge.
July 27 -
Johannes Beije.
September 12 -
Jannetje van den Houten.
September 20 -
Aphalona (Apholona) (Apollonia) Fonse.
October 6 -
Josias Dourleijn.
Ocrober 26 -
Maria Kalle.
November 13 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
December 10 - César Franck, composer and organist (+ 1890)
Gregor Mendel, geneticist.
Charles A. Alexander, Victorian architect.
Deaths:
July 7 -
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet.
August 12 -
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary, cut his
own throat.
August 30 -
Adriana (Adriaantje Andriesse) van den Houten.
November 23 -
Kornelia van den Houten.
Ali Pasha, Albanian ruler under the Ottoman Empire.
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