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Historical Event(s)
– Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
– Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
– French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
– Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
– French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
– Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
– The first American Indian Reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
– Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years’ War.
– Seven Years’ War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
– French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.
Who Were Born On ?
– James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
– Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (d. 1820)
– Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
– Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti (d. 1806)
– Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician (d. 1820)
– Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
– Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
– Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
– Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
– Nathan Wilson U.S. Representative from New York (d. 1834)