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Historical Event(s)
– In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
– Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Who Were Born On ?
– Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
– Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
– Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary (d. 1811)
– Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (d. 1823)
– Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French statesman (d. 1793)
– William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English territorial governor (d. 1825)
– Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, Italy-born queen consort of France and wife of King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1810)
– Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
– James McHenry, American statesman (d. 1816)
– Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815)