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Wikipedia.
Events:
January 8 -
Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Rebellions.
October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton
University in 1896).
October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru.
Births:
January 12 -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (died 1827).
January 24 -
King Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792).
February 4 -
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish general and nationalist (died 1817).
February 5 -
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Federalist politician and
soldier (died 1825).
March 7 -
André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802).
March 30 -
Francisco Goya, painter (died 1828).
July 3 -
Henry Grattan, Irish politician (died 1820).
September 28 -
Sir William Jones, discoverer of the Indo-European languages
family (died 1794).
November 27 -
Robert R. Livingston, American public official and diplomat
(died 1813).
Baptized:
March 20 -
Krina Jacobse (Crijna Jacobse) Hanse.
Deaths:
May 22 -
Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (born 1660).
June 14 -
Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698).
July 9 -
Philip V of Spain (born 1683).
July 28 -
John Peter Zenger, American printer (born 1697).
August 6 -
Christian VI of Denmark (born 1699).
November 14 -
Georg Steller, German naturalist (born 1709).
December 6 -
Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665).
Catharine de Ricci, Saint (born 1522).
Interred:
December 5 -
Maria van den Houte.
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