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Historical Event(s)
– The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
– King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
– France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
– Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
– Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
– King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
– The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
– Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
– Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
– Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
– Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (d. 1866)
– Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
– John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840)
– John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882)
– Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
– Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
– Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845)
– Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (d. 1861)