See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 11 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public.
March 14 -
Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy
and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first three frigates, USS United
States, USS Constellation and USS Constitution went into service).
May 8 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier is executed by guillotine.
May 28-June 1 - The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant), naval battle between
British and French.
July 27 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the
execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution."
July 28 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending
thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
August 7 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania
rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
August 20 - Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee,
Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa and Pottawatomie warriors into a
disorganized retreat.
October - Fort Wayne founded in what is now the U.S. state of Indiana.
November 19 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty,
which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American
Revolutionary War.
Births:
April 10 -
Matthew Perry, American Commodore.
May 8 -
Jacomijntje Grinwis.
May 17 -
Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (+ 1860).
May 27 -
Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur.
July 5 -
Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham cracker (+ 1851).
August 24 -
Jannetje van den Houten.
Baptized:
July 20 -
Klasina van den Houten.
August 6 -
Digmannus van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 16 -
Edward Gibbon, historian.
March 28 -
Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist.
April 27 - Sir
William Jones, British philologist and discoverer of the Indo-European
languages family.
May 8 -
Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and father of modern chemistry.
July 28 -
Maximilian Robespierre (executed).
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