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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
– American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
– American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
– American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
– American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
– Benedict Arnold’s expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
– American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
– American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
– At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
Who Were Born On ?
– Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)
– J. M. W. Turner, English painter (d. 1851)
– Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
– Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic (d. 1840)
– Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
– Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
– William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
– Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852)
– Jane Austen, English writer (d. 1817)