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Events
July 30
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Baltimore, Maryland
is founded.
First
printing press
was established in
Ottoman Empire
(app. 300 years after it was first used in western civilization) by
Ibrahim Muteferrika
.
Astronomer
James Bradley
discovers and describes the prinicple of aberration of starlight .
Births
January 12
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Edmund Burke
, statesman, philosopher (d.
1797
)
January 22
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
, author and philosopher (d.
1781
)
May 2
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Catherine the Great
of Russia (d.
1796
)
Deaths
January 19
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William Congreve
, English playwright
May 17
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Samuel Clarke
, English philosopher
August 5
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Thomas Newcomen
, English inventor of an early steam engine (born
1663
)
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