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Events
The Great Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore

The 5th Battalion 60th Regiment is raised

George Thompson joins the Marines

(Naval) The Battle of Cape St Vincent. Several days after the battle, HMS Terpsichore, 32, engaged the damaged Spanish line-of-battle ship Santissima Trinidad, 136, which was the largest ship in the world at the time.

Births
Terry Button is born