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Historical Event(s)
– Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
– Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
– The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
– 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
– The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
– Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
– The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
– James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
– James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
– James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile
Who Were Born On ?
– Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal (d. 1826)
– Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
– Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
– George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
– David Thompson, Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
– Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823)
– Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
– Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
– King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840)
– Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)