See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Benjamin Franklin created the Philadelphia police force - the first city-paid force.
In Britain a Licensing Act required plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain
for censorship.
Still born:
February 16 -
Still born van den Houten.
Births:
January 23 -
John Hancock, statesman and U.S. revolutionary (+ 1793).
January 29 -
Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809).
April 27 -
Edward Gibbon, historian.
May 20 -
William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (+ 1805).
Frances Abington - English actress.
John Hunter - second governor of New South Wales.
Baptized:
January 14 -
Cristoffel van Ginneken.
July 20 -
Jan Oosterling.
Deaths:
December 19 -
James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland.
Emperor
Nakamikado of Japan.
Gian Gastone de' Medici, last Medici Duke of Tuscany.
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