St. Patrick’s Day in New York City in 2013
In the year 1762, Britain declares war on Spain and Naples (Jan 4), thousands of Sikhs are slaughtered in the Great Holocaust in Punjab, India (Feb 2), the first Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City takes place in lower Manhattan (Mar 17), the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ends the war between Russia and Prussia (May 15), Catherine II becomes empress of Russia (Jul 9), the British East India Company seizes Manila from the Spaniards (Aug 10), and make it an Open Port (Oct 5) – and all these fine people were born:
1762-0125 Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz* politician/MP – Vigvoll, Tveit, Norway (1838/86)
1762-0131 Lachlan Macquarie* British army officer/colonial administrator in New South Wales – Ulva, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (1824/62)
1762-0325 Thomas-Alexandre Dumas* French general – Jérémie, Saint-Domingue (1806/43)
1762-0519 Johann Gottlieb Fichte* philosopher - Rammenau, Electorate of Saxony (1814/51)
1762-0522 Henry Bathurst* earl/administrator/MP – London, England (1834/72)
1762-0605 Bushrod Washington* attorney/ politician/nephew of President George Washington - Mount Holly, Virginia, British America (1829/67)
1762-0812 George IV* King of the United Kingdom - St. James’s Place, London, England (1839/67)
1762-0828 Johan Albrecht Ehrenström* politician/designer of Helsinki city plan – Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1847/84)
1762-0911 Joanna Baillie* poet/dramatist - Bothwell, Scotland (1851/88)
1762-1003 Anton Bernolák* Slovak linguist/catholic priest - Slanica, Kingdom of Hungary (1813/50)
1762-1006 Gabriel von Bonsdorff* academic/architect/the first archiater - Porvoo, Sweden-Finland (1831/69)
1762-1023 Samuel Morey* inventor/pioneer in steamships - Hebron, Connecticut (1843/80)
1762-1030 André Chénier* French poet/guillotined just days before the end of the Reign of Terror - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1794/31)
1762-1129 Pierre André Latreille* zoologist/entomologist – Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, France (1833/70)
Updated 19.3.2021
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