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Historical Event(s)
– Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
– The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
– James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
– 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
– The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
– Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
– Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
– The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
– James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
– James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
Who Were Born On ?
– Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
– William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
– Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
– George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
– Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823)
– Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
– Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
– William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
– Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist (d. 1827)