See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 22 - Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to England.
July 17 - Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to
Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
September 8 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission
San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.
Discovery of Oxygen.
The territory of Baden-Baden is inherited by the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, forming Baden.
Emperor
Go-Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan.
Births:
June 5 - Prince
Ernest Augustus of Great Britain, fifth son of King George III, later King
of Hanover.
June 7 -
Janna van Oost.
August 14 - Sir
Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet..
September 5 - Archduke Charles of Austria, third son of Grand Duke Peter Leopold
of Tuscany, general and statesman.
October 9 - Duke
Frederick William of Brunswick.
November 21 -
Janna van den Houten.
December 25 -
Hugo Hartman.
Emperor
Kokaku of Japan.
Baptized:
July 24 -
Joanna van den Houten.
Deaths:
July 30 -
Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (* 1716).
Augustus George of Baden-Baden.
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