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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 ?
– Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek naval commander in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1825)
– Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
– Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
– Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
– Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
– Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of Africa (d. 1806)
– Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
– Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
– Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
– Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)