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Historical Event(s)
– James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
– The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
Who Were Born On ?
– King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798)
– Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure (d. 1782)
– Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
– Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
– Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
– Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 1812)
– Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
– Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
– Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776)
– John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)