Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 22 |
Carl Hockh, composer |
Feb 7 |
Carl August Thielo, composer |
Feb 15 |
Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist |
Feb 25 |
Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges) |
Feb 25 |
Carlo Goldoni, Miranda |
Mar 7 |
Stephen Hopkins, (Gov-RI) signed Decl of Ind |
Apr 10 |
Michel Corrette, The Society of the Spectacle |
Apr 15 |
Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant) |
Apr 22 |
Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones) |
Apr 22 |
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones |
Apr 27 |
John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens |
May 14 |
Antonio Teixeira, composer |
May 23 |
Carl von Linné, Stenbrohult Småland, Swedish scientist and Father of Taxonomy (d. 1778) |
May 23 |
Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy (d. 1778) |
Jul 14 |
Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer |
Aug 24 |
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791) |
Sep 7 |
George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history |
Dec 18 |
Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement) |
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