Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [NS=Jan 12] |
Jan 5 |
Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter |
Jan 12 |
Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [OS=Jan 1] |
Jan 12 |
Lazzaro Spallanzani, Modena Italy, physiologist |
Jan 22 |
Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer |
Jan 22 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist |
Jan 22 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan der Weise |
Feb 23 |
Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809) |
Mar 16 |
Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic) |
Mar 28 |
Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet) |
Apr 13 |
Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore |
Apr 18 |
Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer |
May 2 |
Catherine the Great [Catherine II], Stettin, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, Empress of Russia (1762-96) |
May 2 |
Florian Johann Deller, composer |
May 2 |
Catherine II, The Scarlet Empress |
May 3 |
Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer |
May 13 |
Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker |
May 23 |
Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno) |
May 25 |
Jean de Neufville, Dutch/US merchant (started 4th English war) |
Jul 5 |
Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet |
Sep 6 |
Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah) |
Sep 22 |
George Wilhelm Gruber, composer |
Sep 25 |
Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist |
Sep 26 |
Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator |
Sep 27 |
Michael Denis, Austrian poet, bibliographer and lepidopterist (d. 1800) |
Oct 16 |
Pierre van Maldere, composer |
Oct 17 |
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer |
Oct 17 |
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, The Rules of the Game |
Oct 22 |
Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798) |
Nov 12 |
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811) |
Nov 17 |
Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785) |
Nov 21 |
Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence) |
Nov 24 |
Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (d. 1800) |
Dec 1 |
Giuseppe Sarti, composer |
Dec 3 |
Padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler, Olot Spain, composer (Fandango) |
Dec 20 |
Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer |
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