See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
July 30 - Baltimore,
Maryland is founded.
First printing press was established in
Ottoman Empire (app. 300 years after it was
first used in western civilization) by
Ibrahim Muteferrika.
Births:
January 12 -
Edmund Burke, statesman, philosopher.
January 22 -
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author and philosopher (+ 1781).
May 2 -
Catherine the Great of Russia.
Baptized:
February 15 -
Cornelia van Ginneken.
August 16 -
Margareta van den Hauten.
August 21 -
Clara van Duyn.
Deaths:
January 19 -
William Congreve, English playwright.
May 17 -
Samuel Clarke, English philosopher.
Adriaan van der Schelde.
Interred:
May 24 -
Hubertus van den Houten.
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