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January 1st The first issue of the Daily Universal Register, later known as The Times, is published in London.
January 7 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
January 27 The University of Georgia founded
July 6 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States. This is the first time a nation has adopted a decimal coinage system.
August 1 - Fleet of French explorer Jean Francois de Galoup, count la Përouse leaves Paris for circumnavigation
August 15 - Cardinal de Rohan is arrested in Paris - the necklace affair comes into open
November – Drought in Haiti
University of New Brunswick founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Coal gas first used for illumination
Louis XVI of France signs to a law that a handkerchief must be square
British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in Barbados
Births
January 4 - Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, founder of the line known as Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
January 4 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist, one half of the Brothers Grimm (+ 1863)
March 27 - Louis XVII of France, later declared one of the Monarchs of France though he actually never ruled
April 4 - Bettina von Arnim, lyricist (+ 1859)
April 26 - John James Audubon, naturalist, illustrator (+ 1851)
May 18 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (+ 1854)
August 15 - Thomas de Quincey - English essayist
August 23 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer.
Deaths
January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer
May 8 - Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman
December 29 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian author
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