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Historical Event(s)
– 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 first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
– Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
– The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
– French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
– The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
– 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.
– The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
– 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 ?
– Sam Houston, American politician, 8th Governor of Tennessee and 7th Governor of Texas (d. 1863)
– William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)
– Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
– Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
– Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
– John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
– Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
– Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
– Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter (d. 1865)
– Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet (d. 1866)