John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62

Death

Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49

Death

Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA)

Birth

Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer

Birth

Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)

Birth

1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette and Sunday Monitor)

Event

Johann Baptist Weigl, composer

Birth

Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency

Event

Pro-royalist uprising in Vend‚e region of France

Event

James Hutton, geologist, dies

Death

Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine

Event

Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase

Event

Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana

Event

Josef Slavik, composer

Birth

Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68

Death

Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die

Event

Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879

Birth

Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905

Birth

Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer

Birth

Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist

Birth

Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71

Death

Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)

Birth

Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna

Event

1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"

Event

Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56

Death