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Historical Event(s)
– First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
– Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
– Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
– The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
– The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay.
– The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
– The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
– New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
– Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
– New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
– William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
– Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869)
– David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
– Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
– Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
– Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
– Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
– Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
– Mihály Bertalanits Slovene poet and teacher in Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1853)