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Historical Event(s)
– In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
– John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
– James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
– Saint Isaac’s Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
– James Cook begins his first voyage.
– Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
– Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
– The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
– The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
– King Taksin’s coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
Who Were Born On ?
– Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835)
– Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
– Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
– Karl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
– Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
– Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
– Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
– Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
– François-René de Chateaubriand, French diplomat (d. 1848)
– William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)