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Historical Event(s)
– The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
– Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
– Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
Who Were Born On ?
– Abraham Clark, American founding father (d. 1794)
– Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
– Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
– Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1786)
– Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
– Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807)
– John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
– Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
– Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
– Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)