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Historical Event(s)
– Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
– Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
– End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)
– Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years’ War.
– Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years’ War.
– Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
– Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
– Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
Who Were Born On ?
– Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
– Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834)
– Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
– Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
– Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
– Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
– George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
– Antonio Canova, Italian artist (d. 1822)
– Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)