See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
February 17 - First partition of Poland, by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria.
August 5 - First Partition of Poland begins.
September 1 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
November 2 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the
first Committee of Correspondence.
Births:
March 10 -
Friedrich von Schlegel, aesthetician, poet, and publicist (+ 1829).
April 7 -
Charles Fourier, French philosopher (+ 1837).
April 19 -
David Ricardo, British Economist (+ 1823).
May 2 -
Novalis, German poet (+ 1801).
May 6 -
Susanna Verduin.
May 20 -
William Congreve, British rocket pioneer.
May 22 -
Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer.
June 6 - Princess
Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, later wife of Emperor Francis II.
June 8 -
Kornelis van den Houten.
August 2 -
Louis Antoine de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d'Enghien.
August 24 - Prince
William VI of Orange, later King William I of the Netherlands.
October 14 -
(Stillborn) van den Houten.
October 21 -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher, (+ 1834).
November 23 - Duke
Augustus of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader.
Baptized:
August 16 -
Adriaantje van der Schelde.
Deaths:
February 8 -
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Dowager Princess of Wales..
March 26 -
Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (born 1704).
March 29 -
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (born 1668).
September 30 -
James Brindley, British canal builder (born 1716).
October 7 -
John Woolman, American Quaker (born 1720).
Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (born 1711).
William Borlase, English antiquary (born 1695).
Louis Claude Daquin, French composer (born 1694).
Samuel Scott, English painter (born 1702).
Georg Reutter, Austrian composer (born 1708).
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