Captain Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of New Holland, which comprises the area of modern Australia from the 135th meridian east to the east coast and all adjacent islands in the Pacific Ocean. October 16 – The Confederation Congress establishes the United States Mint to make common coinage and currency for the U.S., to replace individual state coins. October 23 The 13th century AH begins on the Islamic calendar on the 1st of Muharram 1201 AH The settlement of Östersund is established in Sweden. October 24 – General David Cobb of the Massachusetts militia defeats a body of rebel insurgents at Taunton, Massachusetts in one of the battles of Shays' Rebellion. November 7 – The oldest musical organization in the United States, the Stoughton Musical Society, is founded. November 30 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform, making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. This day is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day. December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén as the tenth of the Spanish missions in California. December 20 – Robert Burns's Address to a Haggis is first published, in Edinburgh. Date unknown The town of Martinsborough, North Carolina, named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin in 1771, is renamed "Greenesville" in honor of United States General Nathanael Greene by the North Carolina General Assembly (the name "Greenesville" is later shortened, to become Greenville). The last reliably recorded wolf in Ireland is hunted down and killed near Mount Leinster, County Carlow, for killing sheep. Births January 7 – John Catron, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1865) January 8 – Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844) January 11 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist, physician (d. 1869) January 12 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855) January 23 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858) February 16 – Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach (d. 1859) February 24 – Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869) February 26 – François Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician (d. 1853) February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist, folklorist (d. 1859) March 4 – Agustina de Aragón, Spanish heroine (d. 1857) March 22 – Joachim Lelewel, Polish historian