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Historical Event(s)
– James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
– The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Cushing, American jurist (d. 1810)
– Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
– Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
– David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)
– Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 1812)
– Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
– Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
– Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
– Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
– Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)