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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
– 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.
– The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
– Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
– William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
– Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
– François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
– John Wilbur, American religious leader, Quaker minister (d. 1856)
– Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
– Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
– Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
– Anne Catherine Emmerich, Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatic, visionary (d. 1824)