Events in History
- Mar 14 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
- Jun 26 Battle of Fleurus: major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon
- Jul 28 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
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Historical Marriages
- Sep 15 4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Sep 22 Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini
- Nov 18 2nd Earl Grey Charles Grey (30) weds only daughter of 1st Baron Ponsonby Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby