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Historical Event(s)
– War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
– Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
– Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
– Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
– George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
Who Were Born On ?
– Benedict Arnold, American/British general (d. 1801)
– Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
– Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
– Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794)
– Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
– Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
– Benedetto, Duke of Chablais, Italian general in the French Revolution (d.1808)
– Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
– Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
– Isabella Maria of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763)