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Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
Peninsular War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.
Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (died 1876)
Hiram Walden, American general and politician (died 1880)
Jules Michelet, French historian and philosopher (died 1874)
John McKinly, American physician and politician, first Governor of Delaware (born 1721)
Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, led by Dutty Boukman, held a Vodou ceremony that became a pivotal act of resistance. This gathering sparked a mass uprising against slavery, marking the beginning of the Haitian Revolution.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (died 1857)
The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.
John Owen, American governor of North Carolina (died 1841)
