Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry

Birth

Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer

Birth

Georg Michael Telemann, composer

Birth

Georg Friedrich H„ndel, buried in Westminster Abbey

Death

Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer

Birth

Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70

Death

Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered

Death

Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales

Event

British begin siege of Boston

Event

New York adopts new constitution as an independent state

Event

John Goodricke, English deaf and dumb astronomer, dies at 21

Death

France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Sardinia

Event

Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

Event

Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar

Event

Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71)

Birth

Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

Event

John Smith Preston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1881

Birth

George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office

Death

Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies

Death

Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67

Death

Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894

Birth

Dina M Craik, writer

Birth

John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896

Birth

Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75

Death

Territory of Wisconsin created

Event