1409 – The University of Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, accepts its first students.
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French emperor in a thousand years. It is a further example of how Napoleon was not burdened by self doubt.
1845 – Expressing what was believed to be the country’s manifest destiny, in a State of the Union message, US President James Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
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