the short-lived United States of Belgium and restoring the Austrian Netherlands.Jeff Wallenfeldt, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Britanncia Educational Publishing, 2013) p93 December 6 – The United States Congress opens its first session in the new temporary U.S. capital in Philadelphia. December 10 – The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars begin in New South Wales, Australia, as a result of deterioration in relations and increasing colonization. December 11 – Russo-Turkish War (1787–92): During Alexander Suvorov's storm of Izmail, 26,000 Turkish soldiers lose their lives. December 17 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City. December 22 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies. December 26 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. Births January 5 – Melchor Múzquiz, 5th President of Mexico (d. 1844) January 18 – Qi Shan, Manchu Qing official (d. 1854) January 27 – Juan Álvarez, interim president of Mexico, 1855 (d. 1867) March 3 – John Austin, English jurist (d. 1859) March 29 – John Tyler, tenth President of the United States (d. 1862) April 21 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Spanish-Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (d. 1876) May 20 – Micajah Thomas Hawkins, American politician (d. 1858) May 23 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842) June 1 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (d. 1836) June 13 – José Antonio Páez, 19th President of Venezuela (d. 1873) June 24 – Helena Ekblom, Swedish preacher (d. 1859) July 13 – Anna Sofia Sevelin, Swedish opera singer (d. 1871) September 6 – John Green Crosse, English surgeon (d. 1850) October 14 – Thursday October Christian I, Pitcairn Islander and son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831) October 21 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician November 17 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician, astronomer (d. 1868) November 21 – Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, British admiral (d. 1858) December 8 Richard Carlile, English social reformer, press advocate (d. 1843) Friederike Lienig, Latvian entomologist (d. 1855) August Meineke, German Classical scholar (d. 1870) December 16 – Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865) December 19 – William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (d. 1855) December 23 – Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832) December 31 – Antonie Adamberger, Austrian stage actress (d. 1867) date Unknown Lone Horn, Miniconjou chief (d. 1875)