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Historical Event(s)
– Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
– Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
– 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.
– At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
– Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
– 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.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer (d. 1831)
– 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)
– Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)
– Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
– Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
– David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
– René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
– Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
– Amos Bronson Alcott, American writer, Transcendentalist philosopher, 1st superintendent for a school district (d. 1888)