Person report

★07 Dec 1837
At the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion, British troops forced William Lyon Mackenzie's rebels to retreat in about 15 minutes.

★28 Jun 1841
Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.

★13 Jan 1842
First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, arrived at Jalalabad as the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating from Kabul to evade capture or death.

★06 Mar 1853
Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata premiered at Venice's La Fenice, but the performance was considered so bad that it caused the composer to revise portions of the opera.

★24 Mar 1860
Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain assassinated Japanese Chief Minister Ii Naosuke, upset with his role in the opening of Japan to foreign powers.

★23 Mar 1862
American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson suffered one of his rare defeats during the war in the First Battle of Kernstown, but he was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula Campaign.

★23 Sep 1868
Ramón Emeterio Betances led the Grito de Lares, a revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.

★13 Jul 1881
The Jeannette expedition to reach the North Pole from the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait came to an end when the USS Jeannette was finally crushed after having been trapped in ice for two years.

★26 May 1888
The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch.

★14 Jun 1888
The Kingdom of Sarawak, on the northwestern part of the island of Borneo, was made a British protectorate.

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