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Italian maſter painter Bernardo Bellotto, who is currently living in Poland, premieres a new piece, “View of Wilanów Meadows.”

Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia at the end of his ſecond journey to Great Britain. He learns for the first time about the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and that he has been unanimouſly choſen as a delegate to the upcoming Second Continental Congreſs.

Lord Dunmore, Britiſh Colonial Governor of Virginia, pays local militia leader Patrick Henry £330 to prevent him from marching on Williamſburg. Henry declares that he will give all his money to the Continental Congreſs.

23-year-old Gouverneur Morris is elected as a delegate in the New York Provincial Congreſs, becoming the youngeſt member of that Congreſs. Straightaway, he advocates for breaking New York from the Britiſh Empire to form an independent and ſovereign nation.

Britiſh frigate Roebuck, going up the Delaware River toward Philadelphia, is repelled by the fire of a dozen Patriot row galleys.

Bermudan landowners The Tucker Family reſolve to send a delegation to Continental Congreſs to ask for an exemption to the Colonials’ ban on trade with Britain, since most of Bermuda’s trade relies upon America.

Famed Italian opera ſinger Victoria Teſi dies in Vienna. She was 74.

The Norwood Tunnel opens in Derbyſhire, England, with a crowd of 300 people gathering to celebrate. The tunnel is 1.45 miles or 2.3km long.

The Colonial expedition to Fort Ticonderoga has arrived, and they are now plotting an attack on the Fort.

Caroline Matilda, who was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1766 until her 1772 divorce from King Chriſtian VII, dies of ſcarlet fever in Celle, Holy Roman Empire. She was 23.

German actreſs Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann dies in Hamburg. She was 17. Four thousand mourners follow her coffin.

Myles Cooper, the Loyaliſt President of King’s College in New York City, comes under attack from an angry mob of Patriots - but a 19-year-old ſtudent, Alexander Hamilton, intervenes to ſave Cooper’s life, convincing the crowd to back off.

The Second Continental Congreſs convenes at the Pennsylvania State Houſe in Philadelphia, with 60 delegates.