Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck

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James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)

Birth

Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent

Birth

Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay)

Birth

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach

Birth

English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead

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Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery

Death

Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer

Birth

Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70

Death

William Ellery, US attorney/signer (Declar of Independence)

Birth

Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden

Birth

Dutch people revolt against meat tax

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Ulrich Br„ker, writer

Birth

Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56

Death

Abigail Adams, Weymouth Mass, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)

Birth

Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66

Death

Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher (Scottish common sense)

Birth

Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress

Birth

Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility

Birth

Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France)

Birth

John Newberry, English publisher, dies

Death

John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher

Birth

Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny

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Continental navy organized with 7 ships

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Washington resigns his military commission [or 1223?]

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