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Historical Event(s)
– Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
– After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
– The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
– French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
– The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
– Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
– Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
– Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
– Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lucretia Mott, American women’s rights activist (d. 1880)
– James Madison Porter, American politician, 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College (d. 1862)
– Sam Houston, American politician, 8th Governor of Tennessee and 7th Governor of Texas (d. 1863)
– Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
– Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
– John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
– Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
– Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
– Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
– Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)