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Births. February 4 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (died 1841) May 18 – Andrew Ure, Scottish industrial chemist and encyclopaedist (died 1857) December 6 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (died 1850) December 17 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (died 1829) December 25 (bapt.)
Full date missing. François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault, botanist, zoologist and painter (born 1691) Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny, Marshall of France (born 1689) Pierre Laclède, fur trader, founder of St. Louis (born 1729) Élisabeth Duparc, soprano singer. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, sculptor (born 1704)
The national flag of France (French: drapeau français) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue ( hoist side ), white, and red. It is known to English speakers as the Tricolour ( French: Tricolore ), although the flag of Ireland and others are also known as such. The design was adopted after the French Revolution, where the ...
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Alfred (middle left) at the Battle of Frigate Bay 26 January 1782. She was at the Battle of Saint Kitts, also known as the Battle of Frigate Bay, that took place on 25 and 26 January 1782 during the American Revolutionary War between a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger French fleet under the Comte de Grasse. In the ...
Thomas Paget (MP for Leicestershire) Thomas Paget (30 December 1778 – 25 November 1862) was a banker and Whig politician in England. [1] He was born the only son of banker Thomas Paget of Ibstock, Leicestershire and founded the bank of Paget and Kirby in 1825, of which he was senior partner until his death. [2]
The action of 17 June 1778 also known as the Fight of Belle Poule and Arethusa was a minor naval action that took place off the coast of France between British and French frigates. The action was widely celebrated by both France and Great Britain and was the first between the two naval forces during the American Revolutionary War before a ...
