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Historical Event(s)
– Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
– Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
– End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)
– English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
– Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years’ War.
– Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
– Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
– Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
Who Were Born On ?
– Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834)
– Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
– Alessandro Rolla, Italian violin master and composer (d. 1841)
– Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British statesman (d. 1844)
– Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
– George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
– Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
– Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
– Robert Smith, American politician, 2nd Secretary of the Navy and 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
– William Blake, British poet (d. 1827)