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Historical Event(s)
– In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
– Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Who Were Born On ?
– François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
– Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
– Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
– Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
– Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
– Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary (d. 1811)
– Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (d. 1823)
– William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
– William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English territorial governor (d. 1825)
– Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)