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Events
January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
January 14 - The US Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War
February 27 – Count of St Germain dies of pneumonia in Schleswig-Holstein
February 28 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church
August 10 - Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan - Queen's Necklace Affair begins
The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania
Huge locust swarm in South Africa
Births
January 28 - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
March 13 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician
October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
October 19 - John McLoughlin, Fur Merchant
October - Sarah Biffen, painter (d. 1850)
November 24 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.
Deaths
Junipero Serra - priest
September 8 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer
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