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Historical Event(s)
– The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
– The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
– The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
– War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
– Belgium is conquered by France.
– Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
– The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
– The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
– Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
– Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto, Ontario).
Who Were Born On ?
– Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
– Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (d. 1865)
– Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
– Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
– Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
– Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
– Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
– William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
– John Keats, British poet (d. 1821)
– James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)