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Historical Event(s)
– Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
– United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre takes place.
– The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
– The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
– Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
– The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
– French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
– French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion.
– Wolfe Tone’s United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
– At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
Who Were Born On ?
– Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
– Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)
– August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874)
– Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
– Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840)
– František Palacký, Czech scholar and politician (d. 1876)
– Willibald Alexis, German historical novelist (d. 1871)
– Sangolli Rayanna, a prominent freedom fighter from Karnataka, India (d. 1831)
– Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)