Cry of Dolores
Father Hidalgo calls Mexico to rise against Spain

On the morning of 16 September 1810 the priest Miguel Hidalgo rang his church bell in the town of Dolores and called his parishioners to rise against Spanish rule. It began the Mexican War of Independence, and 16 September became Mexico's national day.
Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
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- 1807–1814 Peninsular War — 3 years earlier
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Asia
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 61)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 41)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 40)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 27)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 11)
- Charles Darwin (aged 1)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 1)
- James Watt (aged 74)
- George III (aged 72)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 67)