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What Happened in November 1803

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Historical Events

  • Nov 18 Battle of Vertieres; Haitian population inflict final defeat on French force attempting to quell slave rebellion on colony of Saint-Dominque
  • Nov 29 Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
  • Nov 30 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
Events in 1803

Famous Birthdays

  • Nov 14 Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
  • Nov 18 Cornelis Broere, Dutch Roman Catholic priest and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1860)

Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895)

Nov 23 American abolitionist and writer (American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses), born in Hampton, Connecticut

Theodore Dwight Weld

Christian Doppler (1803-1853)

Nov 29 Austrian physicist (Doppler effect), born in Salzburg, Austria

Christian Doppler
  • Nov 29 Gottfried Semper, German architect (Semper Opera house), born in Altona, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1879)
Born in 1803

Famous Deaths

  • Nov 3 Henri Moreau, Flemish composer, dies at 75
  • Nov 5 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French army general and writer (Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)), dies at 61
  • Nov 22 Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar and poet, dies at 57
  • Nov 25 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey), dies at 83

Famous People Who Were

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