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Events
January 9 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London)
May 10 - John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London
Secretary of State for colonies appointed in Britain
Massachusetts Assembly dissolved for refusing to assist collection of taxes.
Boston citizens refuse to quarter British troops
France buys Corsica from Genoa
Gurkhas conquer Nepal
First of the weekly numbers of the Encyclopędia Britannica are published; 100 are planned
Births
January 7 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain (+ 1844)
January 28 - King Frederick VI of Denmark
February 12 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1835)
March 4 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen, engineer (+ 1827).
March 21 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist
May 17 - Caroline of Brunswick, Queen-Consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom
May 20 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (+ 1849)
June 9 - Samuel Slater, US industrialist
November 21 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian
Charlotte Corday - assassinated Jean-Paul Marat
Zacharias Werner, German religious poet
Deaths
The last Steller's sea cows
March 1 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
June 8 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist
October 31 - Francesco Maria Veracini, composer
Robert Simson
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