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Historical Event(s)
– French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
– Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
– French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
– French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
– Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
– Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
– The Rhône and Loire (Lêre) départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
– Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
– French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
– The Battle of Savenay, decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in Revolt in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lucretia Mott, American women’s rights activist (d. 1880)
– Sam Houston, American politician, 8th Governor of Tennessee and 7th Governor of Texas (d. 1863)
– William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
– Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
– Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
– Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
– 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)