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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.
– 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.
– The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France’s occupation of the Netherlands.
– General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
– 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).
– Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia
– The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
– Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
– Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
– Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
– James Braid, Scottish surgeon and pioneer of Hypnotherapy (d.1860)
– James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
– 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)
– John Russell, English parson and dog breeder (d. 1883)