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Historical Event(s)
– Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
– Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
– Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
– Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
– Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
– Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (d. 1784)
– Patrick Henry, American patriot, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
– Enoch Poor, American general in the Continental Army (d. 1780)
– Daniel Morgan, American battlefield tactician (d. 1802)
– Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
– Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
– Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and orator (d. 1793)