- 1794 — British troops capture Port-Républicain, the capital of Saint-Domingue, during the Haitian Revolution.
- 1829 — HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1851 — Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial Uncle Tom's Cabin begins a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1864 — Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at the Battle of Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
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