Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam

Event

Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer

Birth

Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians

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English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia

Event

Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63

Death

Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81

Death

Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist

Event

England and France meet in war

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Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War

Event

Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal, dies at 56

Death

Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75

Death

New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation

Event

Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)

Death

Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)

Birth

Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester

Event

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)

Birth

Richard Kempenfeldt, English admiral, drowns

Death

Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass

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English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900

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Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed

Event

Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71

Death

Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer

Birth

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)

Birth

Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA

Birth

Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)

Birth