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Historical Event(s)
– Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
– Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
– War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
– The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
– French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
– Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
– Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
– War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
– France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
– Four thousand people attend George Washington’s funeral where Henry Lee declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Who Were Born On ?
– Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
– Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
– The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873)
– Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
– Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
– Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
– Mary Anning, British fossil collector and paleontologist (d. 9 March 1847).
– Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
– John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
– Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)