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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 ?
– Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
– Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
– Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
– Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
– Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French statesman (d. 1793)
– William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
– 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)
– Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect (d. 1837)
– Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815)