Event:
1777 – Continental Congress declares that Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette services be accepted.
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Event:
1771 Thomas Gray, English poet dies.
Birth:
1763 Samuel Rogers, English poet
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Birth:
1763 Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral.
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1774 New York appoints Philip Livingston, Isaac Low, John Alsop, James Duane and John Jay as delegates to the First Continental Congress. The Congress is scheduled to begin meeting in Philadelphia in September.
Celebrated Birth:
William Hooper (b. 1742 – October 14, 1790) North Carolina Lawyer, member General Assembly of North Carolina, member of Continental Congress, signed Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Heywood (b. 1746 – March 6, 1809) South Carolina Lawyer, member of Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Events:
1770 Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia, dies.
1777 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette arrives in Philadelphia and offers his military service to the Continental Congress.
1778 British and French fleets fight to a standoff at the mouth of the English Channel near the island of Ushant.
1781 French spy Francis Henry de la Motte executed in Tyburn prison in England for high treason. He had been found guilty of running an operation which sent secret naval intelligence to France.
Birth:
1768 Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat.
1781 Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer.
1784 Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet.
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1775 The Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General, the first to hold this post.
1788 New York becomes the eleventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Birth:
1782 John Field, Irish composer best known for being the first composer to write nocturnes.
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Celebrated Birth:
Henry Knox (b. 1750 – October 25, 1806) the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and United States Secretary of War.
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1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua is founded by the Spanish Franciscan friar Junípero Serra. It is the third mission in the twenty-one mission chain in Alta California.
Celebrate Birth:
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (b. 1743 – July 20, 1816) Russian poet whose works are traditionally assigned to the literary Classicism with his best verse full of antitheses and conflicting sounds.
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1761 Tokugawa Ieshige, the ninth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, dies.
1772 The HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth, England.
1787 The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
Birth:
1770 Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov, Russian general and statesman.
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1776 At the request of the British, General Washington meets with British General Howe’s representatives in New York and listens to vague offers of clemency for the American rebels. Washington politely declines, then leaves.
Celebrated Birth:
Josiah Wedgwood (b. 1730 – January 3, 1795) English potter, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery.
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