Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 1 |
John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples |
Jan 13 |
Luca Sorkocevic, composer |
Jan 17 |
Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs, Mirza) |
Jan 17 |
François-Joseph Gossec, Reservation Road |
Jan 31 |
Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer |
Jan 31 |
Robert Morris, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence) |
Feb 20 |
Franz Ignaz Beck, composer |
Feb 23 |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild) |
Mar 1 |
Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor |
Mar 18 |
Joseph Schmitt, composer |
Mar 19 |
Thomas McKean, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence) [or Apr 19] |
Apr 17 |
Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782) |
May 23 |
Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism) |
Jun 15 |
Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer |
Jun 28 |
Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer |
Jul 23 |
Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730] |
Jul 25 |
Akinari Ueda, Ugetsu |
Jul 27 |
Jakob Zupan, composer |
Sep 5 |
Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer |
Oct 7 |
Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana) |
Oct 14 |
Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer/signer (Decl of Independence) |
Oct 17 |
Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II |
Nov 2 |
Daniel Boone, Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915), (d. 182) |
Nov 23 |
Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne, The Pleasure |
Nov 25 |
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, composer |
Dec 16 |
Georg Peter Weimar, composer |
Dec 17 |
William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence) |
Dec 17 |
Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816) |
Dec 18 |
Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer |
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