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Events
May 21 - Trial of the Necklace affair ends in Paris
August 8 - Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.
September 2 – Hurricane in England
Choctaw Treaty
Chickasaw Treaty
Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company. It is the first British colony in South-East Asia.
Anglo-Spanish treaty gives Belize to Britain
First ship of convicts leaves Britain for Botany Bay, Australia - 820 out of 1138 aboard are convicts
The trade with Iceland is opened to all Danish and Norwegian traders.
Births
January 8 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (+ 1844)
January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (d. 1858)
February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, philologist, folklorist (+ 1859)
March 22 - Joachim Lelewel, Polish nationalist historian (+ 1861)
August 17 - David "Davy" Crockett (+ 1836)
August 25 - Ludwig I, King of Bavaria
September 18 - King Christian VIII of Denmark
September 24 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.
November 18/December 18 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
Henry Bishop, English composer
Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer
Balusvami Dikshitar, brother of composer Muttuswami Dikshitar and introducer of the violin into Carnatic music
Deaths
May 19 - John Stanley, English composer
May 21 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist
August 17 - Friedrich II the Great, or Frederick the Great, of Prussia
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