of Savenay – A Republican force decisively defeats the counterrevolutionary Catholic and Royal Army, ending the Virée de Galerne. Undated Eli Whitney invents a cotton gin. This causes a resurgence of slavery in the South. Lawrence Academy (Groton, Massachusetts) is chartered. Dominique Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the French Revolutionary Army, creates the first battlefield "flying ambulance" service. The Al Bu Falah move to Abu Dhabi. The first year of regular production begins for the United States Mint, and the half cent is minted for the first time. Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11 in his birthplace of Genoa. Births January 3 – Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist and abolitionist (d. 1880) January 11 – Johanna Stegen, German heroine (d. 1842) January 14 – Wojciech Chrzanowski, Polish general (d. 1861) March 2 – Sam Houston, American President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863) March 3 – William Macready, English actor (d. 1873) March 4 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851) March 6 – William Dick, Scottish veterinarian, founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College (d. 1866) April 8 – Karl Ludwig Hencke, German astronomer (d. 1866) April 19 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875) June 6 – Edward C. Delavan, American temperance movement leader (d. 1871) June 29 – Josef Ressel, German-Bohemian inventor (d. 1857) July 13 – John Clare, English "peasant poet" (d. 1864) July 15 – Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, scientist and writer (d. 1884) July 18 – Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz, French stage actress, later Princess Consort and regent de facto of Monaco (d. 1879) August 19 – Barthélemy Thimonnier, French inventor (d. 1857) August 25 – John Neal, American writer, critic, and women's rights activist (d. 1876) September 5 – John L. Burns, American veteran of the War of 1812, civilian combatant for the Union Army during the American Civil War. (d. 1872) September 25 – Felicia Hemans, British poet (d. 1835) November 3 – Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836) November 17 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (d. 1865) Approximate date – Sarah Booth, English actress (d. 1867) Deaths January 1 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (b. 1712) January 21 – King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754) February 1 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717) February 2 – Samuel Whittemore, American farmer and oldest known colonial combatant