Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and s

The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, by politicians opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion

Emperor Wilhelm II dismissed Otto von Bismarck as the chancellor of the German Empire.

Germany issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding the return of the Klaipėda Region under threat of invasion.

Thomas Cooper, British poet (died 1892)

Napoleon II, French emperor (died 1832)

James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (born 1780)