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Historical Event(s)
– France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
– Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States’ colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
– Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
– Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
– The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
– The very first U.S. patent is issued: to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
– The first US Census is conducted.
– Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
– Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
– Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
– John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
– Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836)
– George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
– Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
– Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
– August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
– King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
– Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)