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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.
– Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
– Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
– The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
– Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
– 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)
– Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
– Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
– Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
– Antonio González de Balcarce, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1819)
– Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
– Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
– Anne Catherine Emmerich, Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatic, visionary (d. 1824)
– Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849)
– Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)