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Events:
April 24 - A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle with the intent to conclude the
struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession.
October 18 - The
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end that war.
Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
Births:
February 15 -
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (died 1832).
March 5 -
William Shield, English violinist and composer (died 1829).
March 8 -
Prince William V of Orange (died 1806).
May 3 -
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (died 1836).
August 30 -
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (died 1825).
October 7 -
King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (died 1818).
October 13 -
Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (died 1821).
November 11 -
King Charles IV of Spain (died 1819).
Olympe de Gouges, Woman playwright (died 1793).
Deaths:
January 1 -
Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1667).
March 14 -
George Wade, Hanoverian soldier (born 1673).
April 12 -
William Kent, architect (born 1685).
April 13 -
Samuel Verbeek.
August 27 -
James Thomson, Scottish poet (born 1700).
November 25 -
Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (born 1674).
Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (born 1684).
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