See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 14 -
Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of England.
Battle of Dettingen.
Births:
February 13 -
Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist.
February 19 -
Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music performer.
February 23 -
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, banker (+ 1812).
March 4 -
Johann David Wyss, Swiss author, (+ 1818).
April 13 -
Thomas Jefferson, later 3rd President of the United States(+ 1826).
August 26 -
Antoine Lavoisier (French chemist aka father of modern chemistry).
September 17 -
Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist.
Deaths:
January 29 -
Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France
under Louis XV.
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