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Historical Event(s)
– France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
– France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
– War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
– Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
– The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
– French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
– King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
– Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
– Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
– Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
– Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
– John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
– John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840)
– Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
– Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
– Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
– Johann Georg Hiedler, Grandfather of Adolf Hitler (d. 1857)
– Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
– Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)