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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.
– Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
– The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
– 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.
– Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
– 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 ?
– Daniel Lambert, Englishman famous for his obesity (d. 1809)
– Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
– William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
– Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
– George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
– Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
– Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
– Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
– King Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840)
– Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)