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Historical Event(s)
– The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
– Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (d. 1792)
– George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
– Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
– Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
– Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
– Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
– Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
– Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
– Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s father (d. 1787)
– Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)