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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)
– Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
– Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
– Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)
– Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
– Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
– Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
– Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch writer (d. 1805)
– Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn “Rock of Ages” (d. 1778)
– Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven’s father and first teacher (d. 1792)