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Historical Event(s)
– Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
– 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.
– Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
– Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
– The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
– James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
– George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
– Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823)
– Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
– Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
– Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
– Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
– Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
– Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist (d. 1827)