Births on October 5

Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Born on October 5, 1715

Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and educator (d. 1789)

Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau (5 October 1715, Pertuis – 13 July 1789, Argenteuil) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He was the father of Honoré, Comte de Mirabeau and André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau. He was, in distinction, often referred to as the elder Mirabeau as he had a younger brother, Jean-Antoine Riqueti de Mirabeau (1717–1794).

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Yamasee War
The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.