Destruction du vaisseau le Prudent et capture du Bienfaisant a Louisbourg 1758

Events

January–March

* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean taxonomy. Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the lamprey with the name ''Petromyzon marinus''. He introduces the term '' Homo sapiens''. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.) *

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

– At Cap-Haïtien in

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

, former slave turned rebel

François Mackandal François Mackandal (c.1730-c.1758) was a Haitian Maroon leader in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti). He is sometimes described as a Haitian vodou priest, or houngan. For joining Maroons to kill slave owners in Saint-Dom ...

is executed by the French colonial government by being burned at the stake. *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...

– Russian troops under the command of

William Fermor William Fermor (russian: Ви́л Ви́ллимович Фермор, translit=Víllim Víllimovich Fermor) was an Imperial Russian Army officer best known for leading his country’s army at the Battle of Zorndorf during the Seven Years’ War. ...

invade East Prussia and capture Königsberg with 34,000 soldiers; although the city is later abandoned by Russia after the Seven Years' War ends, the city again comes under Russian control in 1945 during World War II and is now named Kaliningrad. * February 22 – A fleet of 158 British Royal Navy warships, under the command of Admiral Edward Boscawen, departs from

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

toward North America in an effort to conquer the French Canadian territories of New France. Many of the sailors die of nutritional deficiencies along the way, including the scurvy that kills 26 of the crew of HMS ''Pembroke'', captained by future world explorer

James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...

on his first long voyage. *

February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...

–

Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards may refer to: Musicians *Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, pseudonym of bandleader Paul Weston and his wife, singer Jo Stafford *Jonathan Edwards (musician) (born 1946), American musician ** ''Jonathan Edwards'' (album), debut album ...

, the famed English theologian who had assumed the presidency of what is now Princeton University only a week earlier, sets an example for students and faculty by publicly receiving an

inoculation Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microorganism. It may refer to methods of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases, or it may be used to describe the spreading of disease, as in "self-inoculati ...

against smallpox. Unfortunately, the vaccine contains live smallpox; Edwards develops the disease and dies on March 22 at the age of 54. * March 16 – Members of the

Comanche The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in La ...

Nation loot and destroy the Spanish Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá (near modern-day Menard, Texas) and kill eight of the people there, including the mission leader, Father Alonso Giraldo de Terreros.

April–June

* April 29 – Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché indecisively near

Madras Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

. * May 21 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by members of the

Lenape The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...

Nation. * June 8 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences. Schlacht-bei-krefeld

* June 9– June 10 – Spanish-Barbary Wars – Battle of Cape Palos: a Spanish squadron of three ships of the line defeats a Barbary squadron made up of a ship of the line and a frigate. *

June 23 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. * 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. * 1280 – The Spanish Re ...

– Seven Years' War – Battle of Krefeld: Anglo-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French. * June 30 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Domstadtl: Austrian forces under

Ernst Gideon von Laudon Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon; 13 February 171714 July 1790), was a Baltic German-born Austrian generalisimo and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Grea ...

and Joseph von Siskovits rout an enormous convoy with supplies for the Prussian army, guarded by strong troops of Hans Joachim von Zieten.

July–September

* July 6 ** Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV, as the 248th pope. ** Seven Years' War –

Battle of Bernetz Brook The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, Chartrand (2000), p. 57 was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War (which was part of the global Seven Years' War). It was fought near Fort Carillon (now ...

: British troops defeat the French. *

July 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. * 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...

– Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York. The Victory of Montcalms Troops at Carillon by Henry Alexander Ogden

The Victory of Montcalms Troops at Carillon by Henry Alexander Ogden

* July 25 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced, and all French warships are destroyed or taken. * August 3 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Negapatam: Off the coast of India, Admiral Pocock again engages d'Aché's French fleet, this time with more success. Friedrich II in der Schlacht bei Zorndorf Copy after Carl Röchling

Friedrich II in der Schlacht bei Zorndorf Copy after Carl Röchling

* August 25 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Zorndorf: Frederick defeats the Russian army of Count Wilhelm Fermor near the

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. * August 27 – Seven Years' War – British troops under the command of Colonel John Bradstreet capture Fort Frontenac (near the site of what is now Kingston, Ontario) from the French. * September 3 – Távora affair: Joseph I of Portugal survives an assassination attempt. * September 14 – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Duquesne: A British attack on Fort Duquesne (modern-day Pittsburgh) is defeated. Menzelhochkirch

October–December

* October 14 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Hochkirch: Frederick loses a hard-fought battle against the Austrians under Marshal Leopold von Daun, who besieges Dresden. * November 25 – Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British, who then name the area Pittsburgh. * December 13 – The ship '' Duke William'' sinks in the North Atlantic, with the loss of over 360 lives, while deporting Acadians from Prince Edward Island to France. * December 25 – Halley's Comet appears for the first time, after Halley's identification of it.

Date unknown

* The French build the first European settlement in what becomes Erie County, New York, at the mouth of Buffalo Creek. *

Rudjer Boscovich Roger Joseph Boscovich ( hr, Ruđer Josip Bošković; ; it, Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; la, Rogerius (Iosephus) Boscovicius; sr, Руђер Јосип Бошковић; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, ...

publishes his atomic theory, in . * A fire destroys parts of Christiania, Norway. * Marquis Gabriel de Lernay, a French officer captured during the Seven Years' War, establishes a military lodge in Berlin, with the help of Baron de Printzen, master of The Three Globes Lodge at Berlin, and Philipp Samuel Rosa, a disgraced former pastor. * Okadaya (岡田屋), predecessor of AEON, a multiple retailer group, founded in Yokkaichi,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. * J. R. Geigy, predecessor of Novartis, a global pharmaceutical brand, founded in Basel,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

Births

January 6 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eve ...

–

Charles Ganilh Charles Ganilh (6 January 1758 – 1836) was a French economist and politician. He was born at Allanche in Cantal. He was educated for a profession in law and practised as ''avocat''. During the troubled period which culminated in the taking of t ...

, French economist, politician (d.

1836 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Davy Crockett arrives in Texas. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, r ...

) *

January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...

– George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (d.

1833 Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...

) * January 11 –

François Louis Bourdon François Louis Bourdon (11 January 1758 – 22 June 1798), also known as Bourdon de l'Oise, was a French politician of the Revolutionary period and ''procureur'' at the ''parlement'' of Paris. Biography Born in Rouy-le-Petit ( Somme), he was ...

, French Revolutionary politician (d.

1797 Events January–March * January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796). * January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Re ...

) * January 17 –

Marie Anne Simonis Marie Anne Simonis (17 January 1758 21 November 1831), known as ''"La Grande Madame"'', was a Belgian textile industrialist. She played an important part in the industrialization of what is now Belgium. Together with her brother, , she introduced ...

, Belgian textile industrialist (d.

1831 Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto establ ...

) *

– Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, French chemist (d.

) * January 24 – Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (d.

1844 In the Philippines, it was the only leap year with 365 days, as December 31 was skipped when 1845 began after December 30. Events January–March * January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives ...

) *

February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...

Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (February 1, 1758 – November 24, 1805) was a French orator and politician. De Cazalès was born at Grenade, Haute-Garonne to a family of the lower nobility. With his father as an adviser to the parliament of To ...

, French orator, politician (d.

1805 After thirteen years the First French Empire abolished the French Republican Calendar in favour of the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 11 – The Michigan Territory is created. * February 7 – King Anouvong become ...

) ** David Ochterlony, Massachusetts-born general with the East India Company (d.

1825 Events January–March * January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis. * February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes a ...

) *

February 2 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...

– George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley (d.

1818 Events January–March * January 1 ** Battle of Koregaon: Troops of the British East India Company score a decisive victory over the Maratha Empire. ** Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' is published anonymously in London. * January 2 – ...

) *

February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...

Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier Francis Scott Napier, 8th Lord Napier (23 February 1758 – 1 August 1823) was a British peer and army officer. Biography Napier was born in Ipswich in 1758, the son of William Napier (later 7th Lord Napier) and his wife, Mary, a daughte ...

of Great Britain (d.

1823 Events January–March * January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the Congress of Verona, the Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade Spain for the purpose of restoring Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutio ...

) **

Vasily Kapnist Count Vasily Vasilievich Kapnist (russian: Василий Васильевич Капнист, 23 February 1758 – 9 November 1823), was a Russian poet, playwright and nobleman who was known as an active critic of serfdom in Russia and as a pr ...

, Ukrainian poet, playwright (d.

) * February 10 –

Amalia Holst Amalia Holst (''née'' Amalia von Justi; 10 February 1758 – 6 January 1829) was a German writer, intellectual, and early feminist. Her work examined traditional pedagogy and challenged Enlightenment writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She of ...

, German writer, intellectual, and feminist (d.

1829 Events January–March * January 19 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Faust'' premieres in Braunschweig. * February 27 – Battle of Tarqui: Troops of Gran Colombia and Peru battle to a draw. * March ...

) *

February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...

– John Pinkerton, British antiquarian (d.

1826 Events January–March * January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly. * January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island o ...

) *

February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...

– Joseph McDowell, U.S. Representative for North Carolina (d.

1799 Events January–June * January 9 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound, to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the French Revolutionary Wars. * January ...

) *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. *1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...

– Nicolas François, Count Mollien, French financier (d.

1850 Events January–June * April ** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome. ** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States. * April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a cit ...

) * March 6 – William Russell, U.S. soldier (d.

) * March 9 – Franz Joseph Gall, German pioneering neuroanatomist (d.

1828 Events January–March * January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France. * January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized. * January 22 – Arthu ...

) *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...

– Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum (d.

1840 Events January–March * January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the ''Herald Sun'' of Melbourne, Australia, ''The Port Phillip Herald'', is founded. * January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom. * Janua ...

) * March 15 –

Magdalene Sophie Buchholm Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (15 March 1758 – 12 August 1825) was an 18th-century Norwegian poet. She was the only acknowledged female Norwegian writer of her time, and the only female in the academic society Det Norske Selskab. Biography Magdalene ...

, Norwegian poet (d.

) *

March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...

– Richard Dobbs Spaight, Governor of North Carolina (d.

1802 Events January–March * January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they were at risk of destruction during the Ot ...

) * April 1 – Benjamin Mooers, American soldier (d.

1838 Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...

) *

April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...

** John Hoppner, English portrait-painter (d.

1810 Events January–March * January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales. * January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic. * Janua ...

) ** Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter (d.

) * April 16 –

Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach (16 April 1758 – 21 November 1827), Prussian soldier, was born at Schmalkalden, and educated at Heilbronn and Stuttgart, devoting himself chiefly to mathematics. He became an officer of the Würt ...

, Prussian soldier (d.

1827 Events January–March * January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place on Tasmania (called at the time ''Van Diemen's Land''), on the River Derwent at Hobart. * January 15 – Furman University, founded in 1826, b ...

) * April 19 – Fisher Ames, U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts (d.

1808 Events January–March * January 1 ** The importation of slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into Cuba, and until the island ab ...

) * April 22 – Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Spanish general (d.

1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...

) *

April 23 Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...

** Alexander Hood, British Royal Navy officer (k.

1798 Events January–June * January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts. * January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wa ...

) ** Alexander Cochrane, British Royal Navy officer (d.

1832 Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white plan ...

) ** Philip Gidley King, British Royal Navy officer, colonial administrator (d.

) *

April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...

– Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix, French zoologist (d.

1830 It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy. Events January–March * January 11 – LaGrange College (later the University of North Alabama) b ...

)

* April 28 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d.

) * April 29 –

Georg Carl von Döbeln Georg Carl von Döbeln (29 April 1758 – 16 February 1820) was a Swedish ''friherre'' (baron), Lieutenant general and above all known for his efforts on the Swedish side during the Finnish War. Early life Georg Carl was born at the Stora Tor ...

, Swedish officer, general and war hero (d.

1820 Events January–March *January 1 – Nominal beginning of the Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7). *January 8 – General Maritime T ...

) * April 30 **

Emmanuel Vitale Emmanuele Vitale (30 April 1758 – 8 October 1802) was a Maltese notary, commander and statesman. During the Siege of Malta, he commanded 10,000 irregular Maltese soldiers. Biography Early life Emmanuel Vitale was born in Rabat on 30 April ...

Maltese Maltese may refer to: * Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta * Maltese alphabet * Maltese cuisine * Maltese culture * Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people * Maltese people, people from Malta or of Malte ...

military leader (d.

) ** Jane West, English writer (d.

)

* May 6 ** Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d.

1794 Events January–March * January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark). * January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States ...

) ** André Masséna, Napoleonic general, Marshal of France (d.

1817 Events January–March * January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. * January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the ...

) *

May 8 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...

– John Heath, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d.

) * May 15 –

Thomas Taylor Thomas Taylor may refer to: Military *Thomas H. Taylor (1825–1901), Confederate States Army colonel *Thomas Happer Taylor (1934–2017), U.S. Army officer; military historian and author; triathlete *Thomas Taylor (Medal of Honor) (born 1834), Am ...

, English neoplatonist translator (d.

1835 Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. ...

) * May 17 ** Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English fossil collector (d.

1839 Events January–March * January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre. * January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years. * January 9 – T ...

) ** Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (d.

1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Si ...

) * June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (d.

) * June 22 – Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee (d.

1824 May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) , Ninth Symphony Events January–March * January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, ...

) * June 29 –

Clotilde Tambroni Clotilde Tambroni (29 June 1758 – 2 June 1817), was an Italian philologist, linguist and poet. She was a professor in the Greek language at the University of Bologna in 1793–1798, and a professor in Greek and literature in 1800–1808.G. Melz ...

, Italian philologist, linguist (d.

) * June 30 – James Stephen, British lawyer (d.

) * July 4 –

Charles d'Abancour Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d'Abancourt (4 July 17589 September 1792) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI. Biography D'Abancourt was born in Douai, and was the nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne. He was Louis XVI's las ...

, French statesman (d.

1792 Events January–March * January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends the Russian Empire's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea. * February 18 – Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy '' The Road to Ruin'' in London. * February ...

) * July 25 – Elizabeth Hamilton, English writer (d.

1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in s ...

) *

July 31 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...

–

Rosalie de Constant Rosalie de Constant, (31 July 1758 Saint-Jean – 27 November 1834 Geneva) was a Swiss illustrator and naturalist. She was the daughter of Samuel de Constant de Rebecque and Charlotte Pictet (herself a daughter of a professor of law at the Genev ...

, Swiss naturalist (d.

1834 Events January–March * January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. * January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states. * January 3 � ...

) *

–

Jeremiah Colegrove Jeremiah Colegrove (31 July 1758 – 26 August 1836) was born to William Colegrove in Scituate, Rhode Island. A man of giant stature, both physically and in the community, he was a prominent farmer and manufacturer in New England. Jeremiah serve ...

, U.S. farmer, manufacturer and soldier (d.

) *

August 2 Events Pre-1600 *338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. *216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...

– William Campbell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Upper Canada, resident of Toronto (d.

) * August 5 – Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan (d.

1779 Events January–March * January 11 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773. * January 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manip ...

) * August 10 –

Armand Gensonné Armand Gensonné (, 10 August 175831 October 1793) was a French politician. The son of a military surgeon, he was born in Bordeaux, Gascony, and studied Law before the outbreak of the French Revolution, becoming lawyer of the '' parlement'' o ...

, French politician (d.

1793 The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I. Events January–June * January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden. * January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fl ...

) *

August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...

– Carle Vernet, French painter (d.

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) * September 20 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, leader of the Haitian Revolution (d. 1806) ChristopherGoreByTrumbull

* September 21 ** Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist, orientalist (d.

) ** Christopher Gore, U.S. lawyer, politician (d.

) * September 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart called Marianne, known as Bäsle ("little cousin"), cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841) * September 26 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine Surgeon General (d.

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* September 29 ** Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (d.

) ** Fanny von Arnstein, Austrian salonnière (d.

) * October 5 – Seymour Fleming, British noblewoman (d.

) * October 6 – Watkin Tench, British Marine officer (d.

) * October 7 – Joshua Coit, U.S. lawyer, politician (d.

) * October 11 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German astronomer (d.

) * October 12 ** James Davenport (Connecticut congressman), James Davenport, U.S. Representative for Connecticut (d.

) ** Theodorus Bailey (politician), Theodorus Bailey, U.S. Representative for New York (d.

) * October 15 – Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German sculptor (d. 1841) Noah Webster pre-1843 IMG 4412 Cropped

* October 16 ** John Paulding, U.S. soldier (d.

) ** Noah Webster, U.S. lexicographer (d. 1843) * October 22/6 – Vincenzo Dandolo, Italian chemist, agriculturist (d.

) * October 28 – John Sibthorp, English botanist (d. 1796) * October 28 – Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas, French general (d.

) * October 31 – Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, abolitionist (d. 1846) * November 5 – Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, French botanist (d.

) * November 11 ** Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer (d.

) ** Caleb P. Bennett, U.S. soldier, politician (d.

) * November 12 – Jean Joseph Mounier, French politician (d. 1806) * November 16 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author, philologist (d. 1841) * November 20 – Abraham B. Venable, U.S. Representative for Virginia (d. 1811) * November 25 – John Armstrong, Jr., U.S. soldier, statesman (d. 1843) * December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans (d. 1787) * December 9 – Richard Colt Hoare, English antiquarian, archaeologist (d.

) * December 21 – Jean Baptiste Eblé, French general (d. 1812) * December 23 – John M. Vining, U.S. Representative for Delaware (d.

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* Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist, statesman (d.

) * Nicholas Fish, U.S. Revolutionary soldier (d.

) * Anthimos Gazis, Greek scholar, philosopher (d.

) * Samuel Hardy, U.S. lawyer and statesman from Virginia (d. 1785) * Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama of Tibet (d. 1804) * Charles Lee (attorney general), Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General (d.

) * Samuel Sterett, American politician, U.S. Representative for Maryland (d.

) * Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, Empress of Haiti (d. 1858)

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Deaths

* January 7 – Allan Ramsay (poet), Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686) * January 17 – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1724) * January 18 – François Nicole, French mathematician (b. 1683) * February 10 – Thomas Ripley (architect), Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1683) * March 2 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679) * March 6 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. c. 1705) * March 18 ** Matthew Hutton (archbishop of Canterbury), Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693) ** Thomas Zebrowski, Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (b. 1714)

* March 22 **

, U.S. minister (b. 1703) ** Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670) * April 7 – Joseph Blanchard, American soldier (b. 1704) * April 21 – Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (b. 1679) * April 22 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686) * April 30 – François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684) * May 3 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675) * May 28 – Ernst August II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach (b. 1737) * June 3 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (b. 1671) * June 9 – Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Puerto Rican soldier * June 12 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722) * July 6 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general (in battle) (b. c. 1725) Marthanda Vurmah Maha Rajah

* July 7 – Marthanda Varma, Rani of Attingal (b. 1706) * July 15 – Ambrosius Stub, Danish poet (b. 1705) * July 18 – Duncan Campbell (died 1758), Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier *

– George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (b. 1675) * August 15 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698) * August 17 – Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin, Russian soldier (b. 1702) * August 23 – Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish lady in waiting (b. 1722) * August 27 – Barbara of Portugal, Princess of Portugal and Queen of Spain (b. 1711) * September 5 – Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, Russian chemist (b. c. 1720) * September 23 – John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (b. 1719) * October 2 ''(bur.)'' – Philip Southcote, English landscape gardener (b. 1698) * October 12 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680) Generalfeldmarschall Keith (Pesne)

* October 14 ** Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1709) ** James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696) * October 20 – Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, British politician (b. 1706) * October 25/8 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor (b. 1703) * November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686) * November 12 – John Cockburn (Scottish politician), John Cockburn, Scottish politician * November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694) * November 22 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (b. 1680) * November 27 – Senesino, Italian singer (b. 1686) * December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688) * December 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695) * December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, Polish-Lithuanian bishop (b. 1695) * December 25 – James Hervey, English clergyman, writer (b. 1714) * December 26 – François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist, satirist (b. 1677)

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, Haitian revolutionary leader, burned at the stake * Nathaniel Meserve, American shipwright (b. 1704) * Hyder Ali and his Sepoy capture Bangalore from "Khande Rao of the Maratha Confederacy". (Part of the Seven Years' War). * Verónica II of Matamba, Verónica II Guterres, African monarch

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