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Historical Event(s)
– American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
– Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
– American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
– American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
– Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
– Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
– The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
– American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
– The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
Who Were Born On ?
– François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
– Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
– Ebenezer Elliott, British poet (d. 1849)
– Bhagwan Swaminarayan, religious leader (d. 1830)
– Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
– George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
– Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
– Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
– Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
– Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician (d. 1847)