Date | Event |
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Jan 2 |
James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec |
Jan 11 |
Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer |
Jan 13 |
Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer |
Jan 22 |
Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer |
Feb 16 |
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817) |
Feb 25 |
Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer and organist (Notre Dame) |
Mar 14 |
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer |
Mar 28 |
Maximilian III Jozef, Elector of Bayern (1745-77) |
Mar 30 |
Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace) |
Apr 3 |
Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver |
Apr 5 |
Pasquale Ankossi, composer |
Apr 7 |
Henri Hardouin, composer |
Apr 7 |
Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806) |
Apr 12 |
Gaspare Gabellone, composer |
Apr 29 |
Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action) |
May 10 |
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76) |
May 14 |
Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized |
Aug 14 |
Henriette-Anne of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d.1752) |
Aug 14 |
Louise-Elisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759) |
Aug 15 |
Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer |
Aug 23 |
Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer |
Sep 29 |
Henry Harington, composer |
Oct 9 |
Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer |
Nov 1 |
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797) |
Nov 18 |
Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773) |
Nov 29 |
Giuseppe Petrosellini, La finta giardiniera |
Dec 14 |
François-Hubert Drouais, Night Descends on Treasure Island |
Dec 22 |
William Ellery, US attorney/signer (Declar of Independence) |
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