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Historical Event(s)
– King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
– The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
– The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
– French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
– Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
– During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
– French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
– The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
– First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
– Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
– Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
– Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
– Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
– John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
– Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
– George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864)
– Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
– Mary Anne Evans, Welsh wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
– Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek prince (d. 1828)