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Historical Event(s)
– War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
– Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
– Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
– Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
Who Were Born On ?
– Noah Phelps, American Spy (d. 1809)
– Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
– Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (d. 1810)
– Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
– Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
– Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
– Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
– Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn “Rock of Ages” (d. 1778)
– Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven’s father and first teacher (d. 1792)
– Arthur Lee, American diplomat (d. 1792)