Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer

Birth

Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)

Birth

Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree

Event

Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68

Death

Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination

Birth

Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63

Death

Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist

Birth

Narciso Casanovas, composer

Birth

Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)

Birth

Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer

Birth

John Pinkerton, Scottish historian

Birth

1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria

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Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)

Birth

1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published

Event

Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope)

Birth

Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)

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Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England

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Giovanni Pacini, composer

Birth

James Macpherson, poet, dies

Death

House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr

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Louis R E prince de Rohan-Gu‚men‚, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68

Death

Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80

Death

Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883

Birth

Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59

Death

Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer

Birth