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Historical Event(s)
– Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
– Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) is founded in Madrid.
– John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
– A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
– Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
Who Were Born On ?
– William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
– King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. 1819)
– Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809)
– King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
– Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
– Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
– Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
– Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
– Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)
– Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)