In the year 1764, the Sugar Act is passed in Great Britain, instrumental in the events leading to the American Revolution (Apr 5), eight-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performs a private concert before King George III and Queen Charlotte in Great Britain (Apr 27), Baden becomes the first member state of the Confederation of Switzerland to declare a policy of remaining neutral in future conflicts, setting the basis for Swiss neutrality from 1815 onward (May 3), the oldest surviving newspaper in North America, the English-language Quebec Gazette, is established (Jun 21), the last British troops depart Havana as agreed in the treaty between Spain and Great Britain; Spain cedes West Florida to Great Britain for Cuba (Jul 6) - and all these fine people were born:
1764-xxxx Sarah Allen* (b Bass) born as a slave/missionary - Isle of Wight County, Virginia (1849/c.85)
1764-0101 Pietari Väänänen* folklorist/ statesman - Nilsiä, Sweden-Finland (1846/82)
1764-0211 Marie-Joseph Chénier* French poet/dramatist/ politician - Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (1811/46)
1764-0215 Jens Baggesen* poet - Korsør, Denmark (1826/c.62)
1764-0313 Charles Grey* 2nd Earl Grey/PM/gave name to Earl Grey Tea - Fallodon, Northumberland, England (1845/81)
1764-0403 John Abernethy* surgeon - London, England (1831/67)
1764-0420 Rudolph Ackermann* bookseller/inventor/publisher - Schneeberg, Electrorate of Saxony (1834/69)
1764-0520 Johann Gottfried Schadow* sculptor - Berlin (1850/85)
1764-0605 James Smithson* chemist/mineralogist/posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution - Paris, Kingdom of France (1829/64)
1764-0709 Ann Radcliffe* novelist/pioneer of Gothic fiction - Holborn, London, England (1823/58)
1764-0910 Carl Johan Stjernvall* officer/governor of Viipuri/father of Aurora Karamzin - Padasjoki, Sweden-Finland (1815/50)
1764-0917 John Goodricke* British amateur astronomer - Groningen, Dutch Republic (1786/21)
1764-0930 Johan Solitander* mercant/ ironmaster/statesman - Sweden-Finland (1838/74)
1764-1022 Pehr Granstedt* fortress officer/architect/active in Finland (Presidential Palace, Helsinki) - Karlskrona, Sweden (1828/63)
1764-1104 Philippe-François Joseph Le Bas* political leader - Frévent, Pas-de-Calais, France (1794/29)
1764-1220 Abraham Nordenstedt* (b Qvarnstedt) surveyor - Tammisaari, Sweden-Finland (1820/55)
Updated 22.10.2021-2
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