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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 ?
– Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833)
– Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
– Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
– Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (d. 1870)
– Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
– Hermann von Boyen, German army officer (d. 1848)
– Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
– Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of Africa (d. 1806)
– Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
– Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)