Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 4 |
Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies |
Jan 15 |
Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725) |
Feb 2 |
Caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62 |
Feb 2 |
George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50) |
Feb 6 |
Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70 |
Feb 12 |
Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 |
Feb 12 |
Immanuel Kant, Kant: Über die Kritik der Urteilskraft |
Mar 1 |
Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63 |
Mar 4 |
Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies |
Mar 16 |
Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 |
Mar 20 |
Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 |
Mar 21 |
Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772) |
Mar 30 |
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718) |
Apr 3 |
Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728) |
Apr 9 |
Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies |
Apr 15 |
Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761) |
Apr 28 |
Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49 |
May 24 |
Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73 |
Jun 3 |
Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35 |
Jun 16 |
Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75 |
Jul 12 |
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken |
Jul 17 |
Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80 |
Jul 25 |
William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies |
Aug 17 |
Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in US, dies |
Aug 20 |
Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition |
Sep 4 |
Richard Somers, American naval officer |
Sep 29 |
Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728) |
Oct 2 |
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725) |
Nov 2 |
Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64 |
Nov 5 |
Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poetess (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66 |
Nov 14 |
Agatha "Aagje" Blanket, literary (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 62 |
Nov 19 |
Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75 |
Nov 23 |
Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715) |
Dec 19 |
Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies |
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