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Historical Event(s)
– War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
– Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
– Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
– Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)
– Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and founder of alpinism (d. 1799)
– Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
– Elias Boudinot, President of the American Continental Congress (d. 1821)
– Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
– Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
– Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
– Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
– Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
– James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)