Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence

Event

Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64

Death

Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer

Birth

Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)

Birth

Louis-Fran‡ois Beffara, lexicographer

Birth

Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined

Birth

Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La RŠgne Animal)

Birth

Jakob F Fries, German philosopher

Birth

Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77

Death

Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it

Event

African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated

Event

Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51

Death

Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70

Death

Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)

Birth

Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French

Event

Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893

Birth

Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday

Death

Mexico declares independence

Event

Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81

Death

Moritz B Cantor, German math historian

Birth

August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70

Death

Alexander Chambers, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888

Birth

Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed

Event

Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class

Event

Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57

Death