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Events
February 23 - First performance of Handel's Orlando, in London
December 7 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened
Genoa regains Corsica
139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
Cobalt discovered
Births
January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
February 22 - George Washington, later 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
March 31 - Joseph Haydn, composer (d. 1809)
April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806)
October 6 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
December 6 - Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818)
December 23 - Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792)
Abbas III, Shah of Persia 1732-36
Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806)
Deaths
December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)
Emperor Reigen of Japan
July 16 - Woodes Rogers, First Royal Governor of the Bahamas
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