See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from
Mahmud I (1730-1754) to Osman III
(1754-1757).
Beginning of the French and Indian War in North America.
Britain and its colonies adopted a new Marriage Act that formulated many of the rules
of modern marriage.
Births:
February 2 -
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, politician (died 1838).
March 17 -
Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (died 1793).
April 15 -
Johanna Korsten.
June 4 -
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German Scientific Editor, Astronomer ( died 1832).
July 11 -
Thomas Bowdler, English physician (died 1825).
August 2 -
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect (died 1825).
August 21 -
William Murdoch, inventor (died 1839).
August 23 -
King Louis XVI of France (died 1793).
September 9 -
William Bligh, English sailor (died 1817).
September 26 -
Joseph Proust, French chemist (died 1826).
October 1 -
Emperor Paul I of Russia (died 1801).
December 24 -
George Crabbe, English poet (died 1832).
Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (died 1795).
Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer (died 1806).
Richard Martin, founder of the RSPCA (died 1834).
Baptized:
October 20 -
Teunis Abramse Breesnee.
Deaths:
January 28 -
Ludvig Holberg, Danish dramatist and writer (born 1684).
February 13 -
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (born 1683).
March 6 -
Henry Pelham, British Prime Minister (born 1696).
April 9 -
Christan Woolf, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679).
June -
Cornelis van den Houten.
October 8 -
Henry Fielding, English novelist (born 1707).
November 27 -
Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667).
Interred:
January 14 -
Anna Emerentia Sevorin.
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