Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer

Birth

Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62

Death

Andr‚-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)

Birth

Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)

Event

Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris

Event

Spain and France sign peace treaty

Event

George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal

Birth

Benedikt Randhartinger, composer

Birth

Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army

Event

Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed

Death

Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897

Birth

US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves

Event

John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)

Birth

Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60

Death

Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)

Birth

Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies

Death

Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X

Event

Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26

Death

GiosuŠ Carducci, Italy, poet (Nobel 1906)

Birth

Adelaide, South Australia founded

Event

US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC

Event

Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England

Event

Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

Birth

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies

Death

John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77

Death