Person report

★10 Jul 1806
Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at Vellore Fort, killing at least 100 British troops.

★30 Oct 1806
War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia, surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.

★12 Jan 1808
John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.

★26 Mar 1812
The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry's approval of legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.

★17 Oct 1814
A wooden beer fermenting vat in London burst, destroying a second vat and causing a flood of at least 128,000 imperial gallons of porter that killed eight people.

★25 Dec 1815
The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, made its debut at King's Chapel in Boston.

★02 Jul 1816
The French frigate Méduse ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania, with the survivors escaping on a makeshift raft, which was depicted in Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.

★24 Dec 1826
More than one third of the cadets enrolled in the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, rioted over the smuggling of whiskey to make eggnog for a Christmas Day party.

★29 Sep 1829
The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, originally headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded.

★15 Sep 1831
The John Bull, the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

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