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Historical Event(s)
– Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to the United Kingdom.
– Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
– The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The “Regulators”, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
– Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
– Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
– The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
– Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
Who Were Born On ?
– Robert Hett Chapman, American Presbyterian minister and president of the University of North Carolina (d. 1833)
– Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833)
– Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
– Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
– Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
– Thomas Talbot, Irish-born Canadian administrator (d. 1853)
– Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
– Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
– Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (d. 1855)