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Historical Event(s)
– The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
– A Great Jubilee Day held at Trumbull, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
– The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
– The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
– American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
– Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
– In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.
– John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
– A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
– George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Who Were Born On ?
– Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
– Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
– Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
– Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
– Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
– Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
– Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
– William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
– Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
– Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)