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Historical Event(s)
– Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
– The United States Congress empowers president John Adams to enlist 10,000 men for service in case of a declaration of war or invasion of the country’s domain. It also authorizes Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels preying upon or attacking American merchantmen about the coast.
– United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
– The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
– Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
– Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the “war”.
– French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
– The week long battle of St. George’s Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
– Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
– At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
– Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
– Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
– Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
– František Palacký, Czech scholar and politician (d. 1876)
– Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), German-born consort of Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1860)
– Sangolli Rayanna, a prominent freedom fighter from Karnataka, India (d. 1831)
– Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
– King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
– Alexander Brullov, Russian painter (d. 1877)