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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
– 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.
– The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Who Were Born On ?
– Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854)
– Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
– William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
– François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
– John Wilbur, American religious leader, Quaker minister (d. 1856)
– Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
– Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
– Anne Catherine Emmerich, Roman Catholic mystic, stigmatic, visionary (d. 1824)
– Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)