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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
– Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
– American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
– Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
– Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
– The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
– American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
– First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
– American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
– Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
– Juan Larrea, Argentine businessman, member of the Primera Junta (d. 1847)
– Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca and Queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
– Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
– Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
– Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
– Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
– Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop (d. 1846)
– Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)