Date | Event |
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Jan 4 |
Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer |
Jan 5 |
William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793) |
Jan 28 |
Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774). Reigned 1757-74. |
Jan 29 |
Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America/fieldmarshal |
Feb 2 |
Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790) |
Feb 10 |
Pierre de La Garde, composer |
Feb 19 |
David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko), (d. 2013) |
Feb 19 |
David Garrick, Richard III |
Feb 24 |
Bernhard Hupfeld, composer |
Feb 26 |
John Randall, composer |
Mar 26 |
Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer |
Mar 31 |
Florian Wrastill, composer |
Apr 9 |
Georg Matthias Monn, composer |
Apr 30 |
Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer |
May 13 |
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I) |
Jun 8 |
John Collins, American politician (d. 1795) |
Jun 19 |
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer |
Jun 20 |
Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776) |
Jun 27 |
Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799) |
Jul 5 |
Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786) |
Aug 13 |
Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer |
Aug 13 |
Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776) |
Aug 15 |
Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810) |
Sep 4 |
Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783) |
Sep 22 |
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783) |
Sep 24 |
Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto) |
Oct 5 |
Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744) |
Nov 16 |
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French Enlightenment philosophe/mathematician (Encyclopédie), (d. 1783) |
Dec 9 |
Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art) |
Dec 16 |
Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806) |
Dec 20 |
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787) |
Dec 25 |
Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italy, Pope (1775-99) |
Dec 27 |
Pope Pius VI (d. 1799) |
24 |
Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto |
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