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Historical Event(s)
– The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
– A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
– Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
– Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
– Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
– Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
– The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
– The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
– Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
– French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
Who Were Born On ?
– Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
– Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
– François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (d. 1853)
– Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest (d. 1859)
– General Dimitris Plapoutas, Greek War of Independence figure (d. 1864)
– Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
– King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
– Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
– Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
– Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)