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Historical Event(s)
– Louis XVI becomes King of France.
– Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
– Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
– Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
– The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
– Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
– Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
– Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
– First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
– First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hans Järta, Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
– Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
– William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
– Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician (d. 1825)
– François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
– Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
– Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
– Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
– Lord William Bentinck, British soldier, Governor General of India (d. 1839)
– Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (d. 1857)