A Daily Dose of History (02 Dec 2024)

Today's historical events:

• Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
• The University of Leipzig opens.
• St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren following the Great Fire of London, is consecrated.
• Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implements it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
• At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
• War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
• Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
• French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
• Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• Alabama ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia; U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

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