Date | Event |
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Jan 10 |
Ethan Allen, Litchfield Connecticut, American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mtn Boys) |
Mar 11 |
Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792) |
Apr 14 |
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783, 1807-09) Dies 1809. |
Apr 16 |
Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795) |
Apr 17 |
Philip Hayes, composer |
May 1 |
Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819) (d. 1819) |
May 4 |
Josef Kohaut, composer |
May 8 |
Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809) |
May 9 |
John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet |
May 27 |
Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer |
May 27 |
Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796) |
May 28 |
Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor (guillotine) |
Jun 3 |
Johann Christoph Oley, composer |
Jun 4 |
George III, London England, King of Great Britain (1760-1820) |
Jun 16 |
Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816) |
Jun 22 |
Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813) |
Jun 29 |
Constantin Reindl, composer |
Jul 3 |
John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist |
Jul 11 |
Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands |
Jul 24 |
Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart) |
Aug 1 |
Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794) |
Sep 22 |
Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses Selectae) |
Sep 25 |
Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789) |
Oct 6 |
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789) |
Oct 10 |
Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe) |
Oct 11 |
Arthur Phillip, admiral/1st governor New-South Wales |
Oct 14 |
Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer |
Nov 15 |
F William Herschel, German/English astronomer (discovered Uranus) |
Dec 2 |
Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775) |
Dec 14 |
Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer |
Dec 26 |
Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence |
Dec 28 |
Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer |
Dec 31 |
Charles Lord Cornwallis, soldier/statesman "fire when ready Gridley" |
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