See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 12 - English colonist
James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
May 29 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec Quebec.
July 30 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
Births:
March 8 -
Aart Lambertse van den Houten.
May 4 -
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist,
political scientist, and sailor.
March 13 -
Joseph Priestley, scientist, minister (+ 1804).
Baptized:
March 13 -
Jacobus van Ginneken.
Deaths:
February 1 -
King August II of Poland.
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