In the year 1749, the first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published (Jan 3), King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company land north of the Ohio River, with a condition: European families are to move there (May 19), the first recorded game of baseball is played in Surrey, England (Sep 12), King Louis XV of France issues a harsh ordinance against the increasing number of starving people moving into Paris (Nov 18), Indian tribes in North America continue losing their land - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1789, George Washington is elected as the first president of the United States (Feb 4), mutiny on HMS Bounty takes place (Apr 28), the French Revolution begins (Jul 14), William Herschel discovers Saturn’s moon Enceladus (Aug 28), r French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes the use of a special device to carry out executions in France in a more human manner (Oct 10), Thomas Jefferson introduces the macaroni machine to United States from his trip to Europe - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1727, the German composer Händel becomes Handel, a British subject (Feb 20), George II of Great Britain is crowned to the tunes of Handel’s Coronation Anthems, played at the coronations of British monarchs ever since (Oct 11), earthquake in Persia kills 77000 people (Nov 18), the first Amish move to North America - and all these fine people were born: 1727-0125 Aron Gustaf Silfersparre* baron/chamberlain – Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1818/91) Continue reading

In the year 1719, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is published (Apr 25), the first issue of Pennsylvania’s first newspaper, the American Weekly Mercury, is published (Dec 22), Prussia conducts Europe’s first systematic census, the Great Northern War goes on - and all these fine people were born: 1719-xxxx Henry Berry* Liverpool’s second dock engineer - England (1812/c. 93) 1719-xxxx William Bradford* printer/soldier/leader during the American Revolution from Philadelphia - New York City, British America (1791/c. Continue reading

In the year 1741, Spain wins an impressive victory over Great Britain in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, consolidating its supremacy in South America (May), Alexei Chirikov and his crew become the first Europeans to visit Alaska (Jul 15), the Battle of Colachel ends the Dutch colonial rule in India (Aug 10), Anders Celsius develops Centigrade, the predecessor of the Celsius scale (Dec 21) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1775, The American Revolution begins (Feb 9), the comedy Le Barbier de Séville is premièred in Paris (Feb 23), the Continental Congress names George Washington as commander of the Continental Army (Jun 14), Tucson, Arizona is founded (Aug 18), a smallpox epidemic begins in New England - and all these fine people were born: 1775-0120 André-Marie Ampère* physicist/ mathematician/ inventor - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1836/61) 1775-0210 Charles Lamb* essayist/ poet/antiquarian - Inner Temple, London, England (1834/59) Continue reading

In the year 1779, James Cook is killed on his third voyage, on the Sandwich Islands (Feb 14), in support of the U.S., Spain declares war on Britain (Jun 16), Fort Nashborough (later Nashville) is founded (Dec 25), the city of Tampere, Finland is founded, the American Revolutionary War goes on – and all these fine people were born: 1779-xxxx Giacomo Beltrami * jurist/ author/explorer - Bergamo, Italy (1855/c.75) 1779-0101 Continue reading

In the year 1723, Baku surrenders to Russians in the Russo-Persian War, remaining part of Russia for twelve years (Jun 26), having seen the Palace of Versailles in France, Peter the Great opens the Peterhof Palace in Saint Petersburg (Aug), Antonio Vivaldi composes The Four Seasons - and all these fine people were born: 1723-0105 Nicole-Reine Lepaute* astronomer/mathematician - Luxembourg Palace, Paris, Kingdom of France (1788/65) 1723-0205 John Witherspoon* Scottish-American signer of the Declaration of Independence - Gifford, Scotland (1794/72) Continue reading

Gilbert Seabrooks - Dec 2, 2019Very interesting subject , appreciate it for posting . Thanks for that Gilbert! Please do go and have a look at some other years as well. And some of the other material.

In the year 1729, Baltimore, Maryland is founded (Jul 30), over 200 colonists in Mississippi, mostly French, claiming land from the Natchez nation, are massacred by them (Nov 29), Fountain of Ahmed III in Istanbul is completed, Stephen Gray discovers electrical conduction - and all these fine people were born: 1729-0112 Edmund Burke* statesman/philosopher - Dublin, Ireland (1797/68) 1729-0112 Lazzaro Spallanzani* biologist/ physiologist/priest - Scandiano, Italy (1799/70) 1729-0122 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing* writer/philosopher/publicist - Kamenz, Saxony (1781/52) Continue reading

The Iron Bridge - the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron - opens in England (Jan 1), the planet Uranus is discovered (Mar 13), Spanish army puts down the Inca rebellions, and savagely executes Túpac Amaru II (May 18), Los Angeles is founded by a group of 44 Spanish settlers in California (Sep 4), the first bagpipes competition is held in Scotland (Oct 12), the American Revolution goes on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1797, John Hetherington causes a riot in London by wearing his newly invented top hat in public for the first time (Jan 15), Trinidad is invaded by the British (Feb 18), the last invasion of Great Britain begins (Feb 22), John Adams is sworn as the second U.S. president (Mar 4), Horatio Nelson is wounded at the Battle of Santa Cruz (de Tenerife) (Jul 24), Frederick William becomes King of Prussia (Nov 16) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1758, Carl Linnaeus introduces the term Homo Sapiens (Jan 1), one-piece pencil with eraser is patented (Mar 30), Halley’s Comet appears for the first time after Halley’s identification of it (Dec 25), the French build the first European settlement at the mouth of Buffalo Creek in New York, the Seven Year’s War goes on - and all these fine people were born: 1758-0106 Charles Ganilh* economist/politician - Allanche, Kingdom of France (1836/78) Continue reading

George II during the Battle of Dettingen In the year 1743, long-time governor of French Louisiana in New France is replaced by the Canadian-born Pierre de Rigaud (May 10), George II of Great Britain becomes the last British king to lead his own troops, in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria (Jun 27), France and the Allies of Britain conclude a treaty to provide care for each other’s wounded (Jul 28), Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Turku, Russia thereby acquiring parts of Eastern Finland (Aug 7), the last wolf in Scotland is shot - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1705, Isaac Newton is knighted in Cambridge (Apr 16), the Dublin Gazette of Ireland publishes its first edition (Nov 5), construction of the Capitol Building in Williamsburg (capital of the Colony of Virginia) is completed (Nov), Edmond Halley predicts in Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae that comets sighted in 1456, 1531, 1607 and 1682 was one and the same and would return in 1758 (to be known as Halley’s Comet) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1756, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (Mar 17), the Catherine Palace in Russia is completed (Jul 30), the Seven Year’s war - a global conflict involving every European great power of the time - begins, lasting until 1763, peasants in Prussia are forced to grow the unpopular and obscure potato, the first chocolate-candy factory begins operations in Germany - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1798, French forces invade the Papal States and establish the (very short-lived) Roman Republic (Mar 7), the Naturalization Act of 1798 is signed into law, requiring immigrants to wait 14 years rather than five to become naturalized citizens of the United States (Jun 18), Napoleon occupies Cairo (Jul 24), conscription is made mandatory in France (Sep 5), Peasants' War against the French occupiers in Southern Netherlands begins (Oct 12), lithography is invented - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1791, the Big Bottom Massacre in the Ohio country takes place (Jan 2), Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is published in London, defending i.a. the ongoing French Revolution (Mar 13), the construction of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is finished (Aug 6), Washington, D.C., is named after President George Washington (Sep 9), the world’s first Sunday newspaper, The Observer, starts being published in London (Dec 4), the first American ship enters Japan, the French Revolution goes on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1796, the capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York (Feb 1), the first smallpox vaccination is administered, in England (May 14), George Washington issues his Farewell Address, setting a precedent by declining to run for a third term (Sep 17), the Spanish government, not being able to supply its overseas colonies with all needed goods, lifts the restrictions against other countries trading there – and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_9482” align=“alignleft” width=“356”]Fort Neoheroka historical marker near Snow Hill, NC[/caption] In the year 1713, Swedish troops are defeated by the Ottoman Empire in Moldova (Feb 1), Fort Neoheroka falls to the Carolina militia, ending the Tuscarora nation’s military strength (Mar 23), Spain cedes Gibraltar and Menorca to Britain (Mar 27), French residents of Acadia in eastern North America are given one year to declare allegiance to Great Britain, or leave Nova Scotia (Jun 23), the Tuscarora War between the settlers and the Tuscarora tribe goes on in North Carolina - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading