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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
– Louis XVI becomes King of France.
– Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
– Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
– The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
– Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
– Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
– New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
– First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
Who Were Born On ?
– Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
– Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
– Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
– William Bainbridge, American Commodore (d. 1833)
– Antonio González de Balcarce, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1819)
– John Wilbur, American religious leader, Quaker minister (d. 1856)
– Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
– Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
– Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
– Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)