See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is published, in France.
January 16 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
Births:
May 3 -
August von Kotzebue - German Dramatist.
November 4 -
Bertrand Andrieu - French engraver of medals.
December 1 -
Marie Tussaud - French Waxwork modeller.
Christian Hendrik Persoon - Mycologist.
Henry Shrapnel - British Army officer and inventor.
Deaths:
January 16 -
Lambert van den Houten.
April 4 -
Theodore Gardelle - Swiss enameller.
April 7 -
Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister,
noted for Bayes' theorem.
September 9 -
Christophorus (Christoffel) van den Houten (Hauten).
Tokugawa Ieshige - Shogun.
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