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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.
– John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
– The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
– First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
– American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
– American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
Who Were Born On ?
– Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
– Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
– Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
– John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
– Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
– Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839)
– Juan Larrea, Argentine businessman, member of the Primera Junta (d. 1847)
– Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
– Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
– Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)