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Events
April 15 - - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
November 13 - Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna
The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.
John and Charles Wesley form the Methodist Society, on their return to England.
Stanislas receives Lorraine in exchange for renouncing the Polish throne.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which 'confirms Newton's view that the earth is a spheroid slightly flattened at the poles'.
Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.
Jacques de Vaucanson presents the world's first automaton, The Flute Player, to the French Academy of Sciences
Births
January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot leader
April 12 - Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary
May 27 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (+1796)
June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom.
November 15 - William Herschel, astronomer (d. 1822)
Arthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales, Australia
Deaths
December 22 - Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed)
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