Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67

Death

Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)

Birth

Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29

Death

Johann Schneider, composer

Birth

Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60

Death

England, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]

Event

Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor

Event

Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV

Event

Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering

Birth

Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53

Death

Andr‚-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies

Death

Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34

Death

John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader

Birth

Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45

Death

Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education

Birth

Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82

Death

Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)

Event

August Harder, composer

Birth

1st military hospital approved

Event

Russian fleet destroys Swedish

Event

Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined

Death

Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45

Death

African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated

Event

Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church

Event

Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer

Birth