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Historical Event(s)
– Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
– Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
– A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
– George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
– The foundation stone to the Jerusalem’s Church in Berlin is laid.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
– Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817)
– Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
– Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
– Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (d. 1810)
– Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)
– Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
– Princess Marie Louise Élisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759)
– Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)