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Historical Event(s)
– Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
– Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
– American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
– The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
– George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City for the first time.
– British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
– The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
– Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
– Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
– George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain’s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
Who Were Born On ?
– George Birkbeck, British academic (d. 1841)
– E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
– Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
– Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (d.1862)
– John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
– Caroline of Baden, consort of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1841)
– Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
– Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1853)
– Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
– Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Irish writer (alleged date of birth) (d. 1859)