French colonial forces consolidated control over the Algerian coast in the weeks following the fall of Algiers, entrenching what would become 132 years of colonial rule.

Polish cadets and civilians rose up against Russian rule in Warsaw, launching the November Uprising against the Tsarist Empire.

Emily Dickinson, who would become one of America's most original poets despite publishing fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts.