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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.
– Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
– The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
– 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.
– Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
– 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 ?
– Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
– The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873)
– Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (d. 1842)
– Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864)
– John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836)
– Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
– Mary Anning, British fossil collector and paleontologist (d. 9 March 1847).
– King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859)
– William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
– Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)