Events in History
- Apr 5 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
- Jul 11 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"
- Nov 21 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
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Historical Marriages
- Sep 29 Inventor Samuel Morse (27) weds Lucretia Walker in Concord, New Hampshire