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Historical Event(s)
– First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
– The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia 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.
– The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
– Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
– The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
– South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
– Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
– The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country’s temporary capital.
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)
– Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
– Wilhelmine Reichard, first German women balloonist (d. 1848)
– Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Russian-born queen of Württemberg (d. 1819)
– Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
– Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (d. 1850)
– Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)