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Wikipedia.
Events:
The Iron Bridge is completed across the Severn river in Shropshire; the first all cast-iron
bridge ever constructed.
The city of Tampere is founded in Finland.
May 13 - War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress
of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives a part of its
territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
July 16 - American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General
Anthony
Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.
Births:
January 5 -
Stephen Decatur, American naval officer.
January 18 -
Peter Roget, lexicographer (+ 1869).
January 25 -
Pieter Janse van der Velde.
March 15 -
Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister.
May 28 -
Thomas Moore, poet (+ 1852).
August 20 -
Jons Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist.
November 14 -
Adam Oehlenschlager, Danish poet.
Baptized:
January 31 -
Pieter Janse van der Velde.
November 30 -
Adrianus van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 1 -
Hendrik Jacobus van den Houten.
January 20 -
David Garrick, actor.
February 14 -
James Cook (b. 1728), British naval captain and explorer, killed at
Kealakekua Bay on the Island of Hawai'i.
December 6 -
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter.
Emperor
Go-Momozono of Japan.
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