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Historical Event(s)
– Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
– Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
– Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
– War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
– The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
– At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
– Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
– Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
– War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
– France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer (d. 1831)
– Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
– Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
– Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
– Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
– Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
– King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859)
– René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
– Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
– Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)