See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 1st The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times,
is published in London.
January 7 - Frenchman
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from
Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the
English Channel by air.
January 27 The University of Georgia Founded.
July 6 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States.
This is the first time a nation has adopted a decimal coinage system.
University of New Brunswick founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Births:
January 4 -
Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg],
founder of the line known as Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
January 4 -
Jakob Grimm, German philologist, one half of the Brothers Grimm (+ 1863).
March 1 -
Maria Teunisse Breesnee.
March 6 -
Andries van den Houten.
March 20 -
Johann Louwrens Theodorus Cox.
March 27 -
Louis XVII of France, later declared one of the Monarchs of France though
he actually never ruled.
April 4 -
Bettina von Arnim, lyricist (+ 1859).
April 26 -
John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (+ 1851).
May 18 -
John Wilson, Scottish writer (+ 1854).
August 15 -
Thomas de Quincey - English essayist.
August 23 -
Oliver Perry, American naval officer.
Baptized:
March 13 -
Maria Teunisse Breesnee.
Deaths:
January 3 -
Baldassare Galuppi, composer.
Johan Herman Wessel, Scandinavian writer.
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