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★04 Jan 1798
After his investiture as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne.

★13 Jun 1805
The Lewis and Clark Expedition became the first European Americans to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

★09 Dec 1822
In a memoir read to the French Academy of Sciences, Augustin-Jean Fresnel coined the terms linear, circular, and elliptical polarization, and reported a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.

★21 Dec 1826
Settlers from the United States in Mexican Texas made the first attempt to secede from Mexico, establishing the short-lived Republic of Fredonia.

★21 Feb 1828
The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

★11 Jul 1833
Noongar warrior Yagan, wanted for leading attacks on white colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers.

★26 Nov 1842
The University of Notre Dame was founded by Rev. Edward Sorin, of the Congregation of Holy Cross, as an all-male institution in South Bend, Indiana, U.S.

★03 Aug 1857
Indian Rebellion of 1857: An eight-day siege of a fortified outbuilding occupied by 68 people by a force of over 10,000 ended when a relief party dispersed the besieging forces.

★21 Aug 1858
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, candidates for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate, was held in Ottawa.

★29 Dec 1860
To counter the French Navy's Gloire, the world's first ironclad warship, the British Royal Navy launched the world's first iron-hulled armoured warship, HMS Warrior.

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