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Events
April 15
- - Premiere in London of
Serse
, an Italian
opera
by
George Frideric Handel
.
November 13
- Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna
The excavation of
Herculaneum
, a Roman city buried by
Vesuvius
in AD 79, begins.
John
and
Charles Wesley
form the
Methodist
Society, on their return to England.
Stanislas receives
Lorraine
in exchange for renouncing the
Polish
throne.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
publishes
Sur la figure de la terre
, which 'confirms
Newton's
view that the earth is a spheroid slightly flattened at the poles'.
Franz Ketterer
invents the
cuckoo clock
.
Jacques de Vaucanson
presents the world's first automaton,
The Flute Player
, to the
French Academy of Sciences
Births
January 21
-
Ethan Allen
,
American
patriot leader
April 12
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Padre Francisco Garcés
, Spanish missionary
May 27
-
Nathaniel Gorham
, American politician (d. 1796)
June 4
- King
George III of the United Kingdom
October 11
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Arthur Phillip
, British admiral, Governor of New South Wales (d.
1814
)
November 15
-
William Herschel
, astronomer (d.
1822
)
Deaths
December 22
-
Constantia Jones
, British
prostitute
(executed)
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