| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : St. Mathew Passion
| | PH : | Catherine, Russian Czarina, dies; Peter II becomes Czar | | RP : | American Philosophical Society founded in Philadelphia | | RP : | John Balguy: The Foundation of Moral Goodness | | ST : | Stephen Hales: Vegetable Staticks | | ST : | Coffee first planted in Brazil | | DL : | Miscellanies, satirical periodical issued by Pope, Swift, and Dr. Arbuthnot | | DL : | Quakers demand abolition of slavery | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough born 14 May |
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| | ST : | Danish Navigator Vitus Bering explores the Bering Straits | | LT : | Alexander Pope: The Dunciad | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : The Ray
| | PH : | Treaty of Berlin between the Emperor Charles VI and Frederick William of Prussia | | ED : | Ephraim Chambers: Cyclopaedia, or An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences | | RP : | William Law: A Serious Call to Devout and Holy Life | | RP : | Jonathan Swift: A Short View of the State of Ireland | | ST : | Dutch explorer Vitus Behring discovers Behring Strait | | ST : | James Bradley discovers aberration of light of fixed stars | | DL : | Madrid Lodge of Freemasons founded; soon suppressed by Inquisition | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs born 22 March |
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| | PH : | Cathrine II is born
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Suite
No.3 in D (including 'Air on the G String')
| | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : Aeneas Carrying Anchises | | VA : | François Le Moyne : Pygmalion Seeing His Statue Come to Life | | PH : | Treaty of Seville between France, Spain, and England | | RP : | Thomas Sherlock: A Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus | | ED : | Academia de buenas letras, Barcelona, founded | | DL : | The Emperor Yung Cheng prohibits opium smoking in China |
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| | PH : | Maratha government in India | | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book IV
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Louis XV Hunting Stag in the Forest of Saint-Germain | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : Young Girls Bathing | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Allegory of Sculpture | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Allegory of Painting | | PH : | Czar Peter of Russia dies; succeeded by Anne, daughter of Czar Ivan V | | PH : | Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia imprisoned by his father | | PH : | Sultan Ahmad XII of Turkey deposed; succeeded by Mahmoud I | | PH : | Frederick IV of Denmark dies; succeeded by Christian VI | | PH : | Ashraf, Shah of Persia, murdered | | RP : | Pope Benedict XIII dies; Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini becomes Pope Clement XII | | RP : | Mathew Tindal: Christianity as Old as the Creation | | RP : | John and Charles Wesley found Methodist sect at Oxford | | ED : | Martin Wright: Introduction to the Law of Tenures, on English land law | | DL : | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary founded | | DL : | Reduction of slavery in China under the Emperor Yung Cheng |
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| | PH : | The infamous Rebecca Incident near Havanna Cuba sets the stage for the War of Jenkin's Ear | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Moral Essays | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Magnificat
in D Major
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils | | PH : | Treaty of Vienna between England, Holland, Spain, and the Holy Roman Emperor | | PH : | Russia, Prussia, and the emperor agree to oppose Stanislas I in Poland | | RP : | Ralph Cudworth: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality | | RP : | Mass expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg | | ED : | Voltaire: Histoire de Charles XII | | ST : | Dr John Arbuthnot: An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, advocates dieting | | DL : | 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London residence of British prime ministers, built |
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| | LT : | Poor Richards Almanac first appears in print | | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo : The Education
of the Virgin Mary | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : The Basin of San Marco | | RP : | Conrad Beissel founds Seventh Day Baptists (Ephrata Community) in Germantown, Pa | | RP : | George Berkeley: The Minute Philosopher | | RP : | The Moravian Brethren start missionary work | | ED : | J.J.Moser: Foundations of International Law | | M : | Academie of Ancient Music founded in London | | M : | Covent Garden Opera House, London, opened | | M : | J.G. Walther: Musik-Lexikon, first of its kind | | ST : | Hermann Boerhaave: Elements of Chemistry | | DL : | Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanack issued | | M : | Joseph Haydn born 1 April | | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard born 5 April |
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| | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo : The Banquet of Cleopatra | | PH : | The War of the Polish Succession | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Imitations of Horace | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : The Fair at Bezons | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : Allegory of Music | | PH : | War of Polish Succession begins | | PH : | France declares war against Emperor Charles VI | | RP : | Alexander Pope: Essay on Man | | DL : | Latin language abolished in English courts | | DL : | The Serpentine, Hyde Park, laid out | | VA : | Hubert Robert born 22 May | | M : | François Couperin dies 12 September |
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| | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo : The Triumph of
Zephyr and Flora | | LT : | Alexander Pope: Essay on Man | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach :
Coffeehouse Canatas
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Christmas Oratorio
| | PH : | War breaks out between Turkey and Persia | | PH : | Anglo-Russian trade agreement | | RP : | Mme de Lambert, in her Avis d'une Mère à sa Fille, recommends university education for women | | ED : | University of Göttingen founded by King George I | | RP : | The Koran translated into English by George Sale | | VA : | Sir James Thornhill dies 13 May | | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby born 3 September | | VA : | George Romney born 15 December |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : Piazza San Marco | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Italian Concerto
| | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : The Lunch of Oysters | | PH : | End of the Turko-Persian war | | M : | Imperial ballet school at St. Petersburg | | ST : | Linnaeus: Systema naturae | | ST : | French scientist Benoît de Maillet: Telliamed, evolutionary hypothesis | | DL : | The Boston Evening Post issued | | DL : | Royal Burgess Golfing Society, Edinburgh, founded |
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| | PH : | Russia and Austria at war with Turkey (ends 1739)
| | PH : | Chi'en Lung becomes Emperor of China
| | VA : | William Hogarth : The Pool of Bethesda | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater : The Chinese Hunt | | PH : | Stanislas I abdicates as King of Poland | | PH : | Theodor von Neuhof elected King of Corsica | | PH : | Chi-en Lung becomes Emperor of China | | PH : | War between Russia and Turkey | | RP : | Joseph Butler: Analogy of Religion | | RP : | English statutes against witchcraft repealed | | RP : | Pope Clement XII condemns Freemasonry | | RP : | William Warburton: The Alliance between Church and State | | DL : | Manufacture of glass begins in Venice at Murano | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater dies 25 July |
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| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Berenice
including famous 'Minuet'
| | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : The Triumph of Venice | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : The Grand Turk Giving a
Concert to his Mistress | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : Halt During the Hunt | | VA : | François Le Moyne : Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : A Hunting Meal | | PH : | Last of the Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies; Francis, Duke of Lorraine, husband of Maria Theresa, receives Tuscany; Stanislas of Poland acquires Lorraine | | LT : | Licensing Act restricts number of London theatres, and all plays before public performance to be subjected to censorship of Lord Chamberlain | | LT : | Ignacio de Luzán Claramunt de Suelves y Gurrea: Poética, laying down classic rules in Spanish literary composition | | RP : | Alexander Cruden: Concordance of the Holy Scripture | | RP : | Vincent de Paul canonised by Pope Clement XII | | RP : | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Nonsense of Common Sense | | ED : | William Oldys: The British Librarian | | RP : | John Wesley: Psalms and Hymns, published in Charleston | | ST : | René de Réaumur: History of the Insects | | VA : | François Le Moyne dies 4 June |
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| | VA : | William Hogarth : Lord Hervey and his friends | | PH : | Treaty of Vienna Closes the War of Polish Succession between France and Austria. Lorraine guaranteed to France
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Serse
(Xerxes), including 'Largo'
| | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : The Marriage Contract | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : Summer | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : Winter | | DL : | Papal bull "In eminenti" against Freemasonry | | ED : | Lodovico Antonnio Muratori: Antiquites Italicae | | ST : | Daniel Bernoilli: Hydrodynamica, pressure and velocity of fluids | | DL : | First cuckoo clocks in Black Forest district | | VA : | Benjamin West born 10 October |
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| | RP : | The Methodist Church founded by John Wesley
| | PH : | War of Jenkins Ear begins
| | PH : | Nadir Shah sacks Delhi | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Saul
including 'Dead March'
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Israel in Egypt
| | VA : | François Boucher : Morning Coffee | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Louis, Grand Dauphin of France
| | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Louis Tocque | | PH : | Sack of Delhi by Persians under Nadir Shah | | RP : | Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia: Anti-Machiavell, against Machiavelli's philosophy of monarchy | | RP : | David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature | | RP : | Moravian Church founded in America by Spengenberg | | ST : | American astronomer John Winthrop published his Notes on Sunspots | | DL : | Foundling Hospital established in London |
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| | VA : | William Hogarth : The Shrimp Girl | | PH : | War of the Austrian Succession | | VA : | François Boucher : The Toilet of Venus | | M : | George Frideric Handel : 12 Concerti Grossi
| | M : | Tomaso Albinoni : 6 Violin Sonatas
| | VA : | William Hogarth : Captain Coram | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta : A Boy Holding a Pear | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta : The Soothsayer | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Marie Leczinska, Queen of France
| | PH : | Frederick William I of Prussia dies; succeeded by his son Frederick II, the Great | | PH : | Charles VI dies; succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresa | | PH : | Anne, daughter of Peter the Great dies; succeeded by Czar Ivan VI | | RP : | Pope Clement XII dies; succeeded by Cardinal Prospero Lambertini as Pope Benedict XIV | | ST : | Louis Castel: Optique des colours | | ED : | University of Pennsylvania founded | | ED : | Berlin Academy of Science founded by Frederick the Great | | DL : | Frederick the Great introduces freedom of press and freedom of worship in Prussia | | DL : | Smallpox epidemic in Berlin | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Portrait of a Boy with a Book
| | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : Bacchanal | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : The Rape of Europa |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini dies | | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Messiah
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Goldberg Variations
| | VA : | François Boucher : Leda & the Swan | | PH : | Maria Theresa accepts crown of Hungary | | PH : | Czar Ivan VI deposed and imprisoned; Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, becomes Czarina | | LT : | Thomas Betterton: A History of the English Stage | | LT : | Founding of Burgtheater, Vienna | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, sermon delivered at Enfield, Mass. | | RP : | David Hume: Essays, Moral and Political | | ST : | Botanical Garden, Upsala, founded by Linnaeus | | DL : | Highway Act in England to improve roads | | ED : | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, England, opened | | VA : | Henry Fuseli born 7 February | | M : | Antonio Vivaldi dies 28 July |
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| | PH : | Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria, elected and crowned emperor as Charles VII | | PH : | Peace of Berlin ends First Silesian War | | RP : | Etienne Fourmont: Grammatica Sinaica | | ED : | Charles Viner: Legal Encyclopaedia | | ST : | Swiss astronomer Anders Celsius invents centigrade thermometer | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Prussian
Sonatas
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier,
second book
| | VA : | William Hogarth : The Graham Children | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Marie Adelaide of France as Flora
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| | VA : | William Hogarth : Characters and Caricaturas | | PH : | Maria Theresa crowned at Prague | | PH : | Alliance between Austria and Saxony | | RP : | Pogroms in Russia | | ST : | French geographer Jean d'Anville "Map of Italy" | | ED : | University of Erlangen, Germany, founded | | M : | Luigi Boccherini born 19 February | | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes dies 20 April | | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld born 20 June | | VA : | Nicolas Lancret dies 14 September |
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| | PH : | King George's War (ends 1748) American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession GO ! | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Württemberg
Sonatas
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Semele
| | VA : | Pietro Longhi : The Display of the Elephant | | PH : | France declares war on England and on Maria Theresa | | PH : | Second Silesian War begins | | RP : | George Berkeley: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries | | RP : | Ruling Arab family Sa-Udi adopts teachings of Abd-al-Wahhab, becomes Wahhabi | | M : | Madrigal Society, London, founded | | ST : | Jean d'Alembert: Traité de l'équilibre et du mouvement des fluides | | LT : | Alexander Pope dies 21 May |
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| | PH : | Jacobite Rebellion | | VA : | François Boucher : Diana's
Return from the Hunt | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : Achilles at the
Court of Lycomedes | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Louis XV of France
| | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Marie Adelaide of France as Diana
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Swan Attacked by a Dog | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : A Girl with a Kitten | | PH : | Emperor Charles VII dies; Francis, husband of Maria Theresa, elected Holy Roman Emperor, first of the Lorraine-Tuscany line | | PH : | Peace of Dresden: Prussia recognises Pragmatic Sanction but retains Silesia | | PH : | Ishege becomes Shogun of Japan | | RP : | Philip Doddridge: The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul | | ST : | Charles Bonnet: Traité d'insectologie | | ST : | Ewald Jurgen von Kleist invents the capacitor (Leydon Jar), a fundamental electrical circuit element | | DL : | Earliest Oddfellows Lodge in England | | M : | The quadrille becomes a fashionable dance in France |
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| | PH : | Alliance between Russia and Austria against Prussia | | PH : | Philip V of Spain dies; succeeded by Ferdinand VI | | PH : | Christian VI of Denmark dies; succeeded by Frederick V | | RP : | Denis Diderot: Pensées philosophiques | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections | | ST : | Jean-Etienne Guettard draws first geological map of France | | ED : | College of New Jersey founded; becomes Princeton University, 1896 | | DL : | Wearing of tartans prohibited in Great Britain | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Cornard Wood | | VA : | Pietro Longhi : The Tooth Puller | | VA : | Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes born 30 March |
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| | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : View of Verona and the River Adige from the Ponte Nuovo | | PH : | Nadir Shah is assasinated | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Musical Offering
| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : Westminster Bridge, London, | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo : Drunken Silenus | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Portrait of Gabriel Huquier, engraver | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of a Man | | PH : | William IV of Orange-Nassau becomes hereditary stadholder of the seven provinces of the Netherlands | | PH : | Prusso-Swedish alliance for mutual defence | | PH : | Nadir Shah murdered; Ahmed Shah becomes King of Afghanistan | | ED : | Biblioteca Nazionale founded in Florence, Italy | | ED : | Biographia Britannica | | LT : | Benjamin Franklin: Plain Truth | | ST : | Sugar discovered in beetroot | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck born 2 July |
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| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : Warwick Castle | | VA : | William Hogarth : The Gate of Calais | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Madame
Maria Leszczynska
| | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Maurice, Comte de Saxe, Marshal of France
| | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : View of Naples
| | PH : | Shah Rukh, grandson of Nadir Shah, ruler of Persia | | LT : | Marie-Thérese Geoffin opens salon as meeting place for Parisian men of letters | | RP : | Archibald Bower: History of the Popes | | RP : | David Hume: Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding | | M : | Holywell Music room, Oxford, opened | | ST : | Leonhard Euler: Analysis Infinitorum, on pure analytical mathematics | | ST : | English physician John Fothergill describes diphtheria | | ST : | Thomas Lowndes founds chair of astronomy at Cambridge | | DL : | Abolition of hereditary jurisdiction in Scotland | | VA : | Jacques-Louis David born 30 August | | PH : | 18 October - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends King George's War, restoring the status quo ante in the colonies; general recognition of Pragmatic Sanction and of Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor |
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| | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Magnificat
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Instrumental, Music for the Royal Fireworks
| | M : | George Frideric Handel : Oratorio, Solomon
including 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Art of the Fugue
(unfinished)
| | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Mass
in B Minor
| | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal : London- Westminster Abbey | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Madame de Sorquainville
| | PH : | Consolidation Act of British navy | | RP : | Denis Diderot: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient | | RP : | David Hartley: Observations on Man | | DL : | François Philidor: Analyse des échecs, a study of chess, written by the famous composer | | ED : | Philadelphia Academy founded, becomes University of Pennsylvania, 1791 | | VA : | Alessandro Magnasco dies | | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 28 August |
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| | RP : | The Jewish sect of Hasidism is founded by Baal Shem Tov | | PH : | The Capital of the Maratha confederacy in India becomes Poona | | VA : | The neoclassical art movement begins in Europe | | M : | The Waltz becomes a popular dance form in Europe | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Concerto
in Bb for flute
| | VA : | François Boucher : The Interrupted Sleep | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Mr. and Mrs. Andrews | | VA : | William Hogarth : The Artist's Servants | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : The Duchess of Parma
and
her daughter Isabelle | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Farmhouse
| | ED : | Portuguese Giacobbo Rodriguez Pereire invents sign language for deaf-mutes | | PH : | John V of Portugal dies; succeeded by José I | | LT : | First playhouse opens in New York | | ED : | Dictionnaire de l'art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques ed. by the Benedictine monks of St.Maur | | RP : | King Frederick the Great: Oeuvres du Philosophe de Sanssouci | | RP : | Baal Shem founds Jewish sect of Chassidim in Carpathian mountain region | | VA : | Neoclassicism, as reaction against baroque and rococo, spreading over Europe | | M : | Johann Breitkopf, Leipzig music publisher, uses movable type for printing music | | ST : | French astronomer Nicolas de Lacaille leads expedition to Cape of Good Hope to determine solar and lunar parallax | | ST : | Johann Tobias Mayer: "Map of the Moon" | | DL : | First Westminster Bridge, London, finished | | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach dies 28 July | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Mademoiselle de Coislin |
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| | LT : | Diderots' first volume of the Encyclopeie is published | | ST : | The Lightening conductor is invented by Benjamin Franklin | | VA : | Pietro Longhi : The Rhinoceros | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Self-Portrait, 1751 | | VA : | Richard Wilson : Portrait of Francesco Zuccarelli | | PH : | Frederick II of Sweden dies; succeeded by his brother-in-law, Adolphus Frederick | | PH : | William IV of Holland dies; his widow, Anne, daughter of George II of England, becomes regent | | PH : | China invades Tibet | | ED : | French Encyclopédie published | | RP : | David Hume: Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | | RP : | Powers of Portuguese Inquisition curtailed by government | | ST : | Linnaeus: Philosophia Botanica | | M : | Francesco Geminiani: The Art of Playing on the Violin | | M : | The minuet becomes Europe's fashionable dance | | M : | "War of the Operas" divides Paris into pro-Italian and pro-French music lovers | | ED : | Ecole supérieure de guerre, Paris, founded | | ED : | Göttinger wissenschaftliche Akademie founded | | DL : | British calendar altered by Act of Parliament: 1 January henceforth to be beginning of New Year | | DL : | First mental asylums in London | | M : | Tomaso Albinoni dies 17 January |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Aranjuez between Spain and the Holy Roman Empire | | DL : | Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar on Sept 14 | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated | | RP : | David Hume: Political Discourses | | RP : | William Law: The Way to Divine Knowledge | | M : | Charles Avison : Essay on Musical Expression | | PH : | Chinese invade and conquer Tibet | | VA : | Charles-Antoine Coypel dies | | VA : | Pietro Longhi : Theatrical Scene | | VA : | Jean-François de Troy dies 26 January | | M : | Johann Friedrich Reichardt born 25 December |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : John Plampin | | ST : | Swedish biologist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his system of plant classification | | VA : | The founding of the British Museum | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Mlle Ferrand Meditating on Newton | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau : Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Oudry | | RP : | Robert Lowth: De sacra poesi Hebraeorum | | RP : | English Act of Parliament permits naturalisation of Jews | | ED : | British Museum, London, granted royal foundation charter | | ST : | Linnaeus: Species Plantorum | | DL : | British Marriage Act forbids weddings by unauthorised persons | | DL : | Vienna Stock Exchange founded |
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| | PH : | The Seven Years (French and Indian) War unofficially begins | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : Storm with a Shipwreck | | RP : | Jonathan Edwards: Inquiry into Freedom of the Will | | ED : | David Hume: History of Great Britain | | RP : | Rousseau: L'Inégalité par les hommes: discours | | RP : | John Woolman: Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes | | DL : | Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures founded in England | | ED : | King's College, New York, founded; becomes Columbia University, 1784 | | ED : | First female M.D. (University of Halle, Germany) | | VA : | Giovanni Batista Piazetta dies 28 April |
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| | PH : | The French and Indian War officially begins in America GO ! | | LT : | The Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson | | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto : Saints in Glory | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs : Semiramis Receives the
Message
of the Babylonion Revolt | | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Portrait of the Artist's Wife | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour : Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour
| | PH : | Landgrave of Hesse sells mercenaries to England for defence of Hanover | | PH : | End of Anglo-Aust. alliance | | ED : | Samuel Johnson : Dictionary of the English Language | | RP : | Benjamin Franklin: Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of countries | | RP : | Francis Hutchson: A System of Moral Philosophy | | RP : | Immanuel Kant's doctoral thesis: The True Measure of Forces | | RP : | J.J. Winckelmann: Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke | | ED : | University of Moscow founded | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry dies 30 April |
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| | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : Courtyard of the Castle
at Köningstein from the South | | PH : | The Black Hole of Calcutta, 123 British soldiers are alledged to have died there | | PH : | Treaty of Westminster; alliance between Britain and Prussia | | PH : | Treaty of Versailles; alliance between France and Austria | | PH : | British Rule India | | VA : | François Boucher : The Marquise
de Pompadour | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : Die Vermählung
Amors mit Psyche | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : The Town and Harbour of Toulon | | PH : | Anglo-Prussian Treaty of Westminster | | PH : | Britain declares war on France - Seven Year's War | | PH : | 120 British soldiers imprisoned and die in India ("Black Hole of Calcutta") | | LT : | Russian royal Court Theatre founded at St. Petersburg | | ED : | Thomas Birch: History of the Royal Society of London | | RP : | Edmund Burke: Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | | RP : | Alban Butler: Lives of the Saints, vol.1 | | RP : | Arthur Collins: The Peerage of England finished | | RP : | Mirabeau: Ami des hommes ou traité de la population | | ED : | Voltaire finished his Siècle de Louis XIV | | DL : | First chocolate factory in Germany | | DL : | Porcelain factory founded at Sèvres | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born 27 January | | VA : | Sir Henry Raeburn born 4 March |
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| | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Ekaterina Golovkina | | RP : | Denis Diderot: Entretiens sur le fils natural | | RP : | Richard Price: Review of the Principal Questions in Morals | | ED : | Royal Library, London, transferred to British Museum | | DL : | The London Chronicle appears | | M : | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz dies 27 March | | M : | Domenico Scarlatti dies 23 July | | VA : | William Blake born 28 November |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : The Painter's Daughters | | VA : | Giovanni Battista Pittoni : Annunciation | | VA : | Louis Tocqué : Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna
| | DL : | Samuel Johnson: The Idler, weekly periodical | | RP : | Pope Benedict XIV dies; succeeded by Carlo della Torre Rezzonico as Pope Clement XIII | | RP : | Emerich de Vattel: Le Droit des gens | | RP : | Claude Adrien Helvétius: De l'esprit | | ED : | Serjeant's Inn (London Court) formed | | M : | First English manual on guitar playing published | | VA : | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon born 4 April |
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| | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto : Justice and Peace | | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : View of Vienna from the Belvedere | | LT : | Candide written by Voltaire | | DL : | The Botanical Gardens founded at Kew in London | | PH : | Cherokee War against the English begins | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin | | PH : | King Ferdinand VI of Spain dies; succeeded by Charles II | | RP : | Alexander Gerard: An Essay on Taste | | ED : | Oliver Goldshmith: An Enquiry Into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe | | RP : | Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal | | RP : | Adam Smith: Theory of Moral Sentiments | | VA : | William Chambers: Treatise on Civil Architecture | | ST : | Franz Aepinus: Testamen theoriae electricitatis et magnetesmi | | ED : | Bavarian Academy of Science founded | | ED : | British Museum opened (at Montagu House) | | DL : | The Publish Ledger, London daily paper, appears | | M : | George Frideric Handel dies 14 April |
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| | PH : | George III becomes King of England | | PH : | Catherine II, The Great becomes ruler of Russia | | PH : | King George II of England dies; succeeded by his grandson George III | | LT : | James Macpherson: Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands, famous literary fraud | | VA : | First exhibition of contemporary art at Royal Society of Arts, London | | M : | Noverre, ballet master at Stuttgart, publishes his Letter on Dancing and Ballets | | ED : | First British school for deaf and dumb opened by Thomas Braidwood, Edinburgh | | DL : | Josiah Wedgewood founds pottery works at Etrurua, Staffordshire | | ST : | Botanical Gardens in Kew, London, opened | | DL : | Rules of whist laid down by Edmund Hoyle | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Sonatas with Varied Repeats
| | VA : | George Stubbs : Mares and Foals in a Landscape | | VA : | Richard Wilson : Solitude | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : Mountain Landscape with Washerwomen and Fisherman |
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| | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Ballet, Don Juan
| | M : | Joseph Haydn : Symphonies
No.6, No.7 and No.8 ('Morning', 'Midday' and 'Evening')
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Laundress | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Village Betrothal | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni : Diana & Cupid | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs : Parnassus
| | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Mrs. Martin | | PH : | Ieharu, the new Shogun of Japan | | LT : | Benjamin Victor: History of the Theatres of London and Dublin | | RP : | Henry Home: An Introduction to the Art of Thinking | | ST : | Russian scientist and poet Mikhail V. Lomonosov discovers the atmosphere of Venus | | ST : | B.G. Morgagni: On the Causes of Diseases, beginning of pathological anatomy | | ST : | Johann Peter Süssmilch initiates study of statistics | | ED : | First French veterinary school founded at Lyons | | ST : | Society of Arts, London, opens first exhibition of agricultural machines |
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| | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Queen Charlotte | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Orfeo ed Euridice
| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : William Pointz | | VA : | George Stubbs : Whistlejacket | | VA : | Richard Wilson : Lake Albano | | PH : | Czarina Elizabeth of Russia dies; succeeded by Peter III, who dies by assassination; succeeded by Catherine II | | PH : | Treaty of Hamburg between Sweden and Prussia | | PH : | Russo-Prussian alliance against Austria signed | | PH : | Truce between Prussia, Saxony, and the Holy Roman Empire | | ED : | Robert Lowth: Introduction to English Grammar | | RP : | George Campbell: Dissertation on Miracles | | ED : | John Parkhurst: Hebrew and English Lexicon | | RP : | Rousseau: Du Contrat social, ou principes du droit politique | | ED : | Sorbonne Library, Paris, opened | | VA : | Stuart and Revett: Classical Antiquities of Athens, Vol I | | M : | Benjamin Franklin improves the harmonica, turning it into a practical musical instrument | | ST : | At Carron ironworks in Stirlingshire, Scotland, cast iron converted for the first time into malleable iron |
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| | PH : | The Seven Years war ends with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg GO ! | | PH : | Augustus III dies; he is succeeded (1764) by Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Filial Piety | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still-life with Pheasant | | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien : The Cupid Seller | | RP : | Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance | | ED : | Frederick the Great establishes village schools in Prussia |
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| | VA : | German historian Johann Winckelmann publishes his History of the Art of Antiquity | | M : | Joseph Haydn : Symphony
No.22, 'The Philosopher'
| | PH : | Pontiac's Rebellion in Ohio valley | | PH : | Stanislas Poniatowski elected King of Poland | | PH : | Hyder Ali usurps throne of Mysore | | RP : | Confiscation of Church lands in Russia | | PH : | Deposed Czar Ivan VI murdered in prison | | RP : | Jesuits suppressed in France | | LT : | The Literary Club founded in London by Dr. Johnson, with Burke, Gibbon, Goldsmith, Reynolds, etc. | | LT : | Literary salons founded in Paris by Mme. Necker and Mlle. de Lespinasse | | RP : | Cesare Beccaria-Conesana: On Crimes and Punishments | | RP : | Charles Bonnet: Contemplation de la nature | | ED : | Brown University, Providence, R.I. founded | | RP : | Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary | | VA : | J.J. Winckelmann: History of Ancient Art | | ST : | James Watt invents condenser, first step toward steam engine | | DL : | London introduces practice of numbering houses | | PH : | April - Sugar Act passed by Parliament to offset expenses of the French and Indian War | | M : | Johann Mattheson dies 17 April | | PH : | July - James Otis publishes The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved | | VA : | William Hogarth dies 26 October |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Studies of a Cat | | PH : | Joseph II becomes the Holy Roman Emperor | | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto dies | | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds : Lady Sarah Bunbury
Sacrificing to the Graces | | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto : The Ruins of the Old
Kreuzkirche in Dresden | | PH : | British Parliament passes Stamp Act for taxing American colonies GO ! | | PH : | Emperor Francis I, Maria Theresa's husband dies; their son Joseph II succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor, becomes co-regent with his mother | | RP : | A.R.J. Turgot: Refléxions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses | | ST : | Spallanzani suggests preserving by means of hermetic sealing | | DL : | Bank of Prussia founded by Frederick the Great | | VA : | Charles-André van Loo dies 15 July |
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| | ST : | The Nautical Almanac provides the first practical method for determining longitude | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Six Easy Keyboard Sonatas
| | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : The Swing | | VA : | Allan Ramsay : Portrait of David Hume | | PH : | Repeal of Stamp Act, but Declaratory Act states Britain's right to tax American colonies GO ! | | PH : | Frederick V of Denmark dies; succeeded by the mad Christian VII | | LT : | Theatre Royal, Bristol, opens, oldest British theatre still in use | | RP : | Czarina Catherine the Great grants freedom of worship in Russia | | ED : | Adam Ferguson: Essay on the History of Civil Society | | VA : | Lessing: Laokoon, against Winckelmann's theories | | ST : | Louis de Bougainville sets out on voyage to Pacific on which he discovers Tahiti, the Soloman Islands, and New Guinea | | DL : | First paved sidewalk laid in Westminster, London | | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier dies 7 November |
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| | PH : | Russian-Turkish War | | VA : | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson born | | VA : | Giovanni Battista Pittoni dies | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Alceste
| | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien : Academie | | PH : | Townshend Duties: taxes on imports of tea, glass, paper, and dyestuffs in American colonies; non-importation agreement at public protest meeting in Boston GO ! | | PH : | First Mysore War | | RP : | Jesuits expelled from Spain, Parma, and the Two Sicilies | | RP : | Moses Mendelssohn: Phaedon, or the Immortality of Soul | | VA : | J.J. Winckelmann: Monumenti antichi inediti | | M : | Rousseau: Dictionnaire de musique | | ST : | Astronomer Royal, Nevill Maskelyne issues Nautical Almanac | | ED : | Maria Theresa and Joseph II introduce educational reforms in Austria | | ST : | Joseph Priestley: The History and Present State of Electricity | | DL : | Electrical machine with glass pane becomes a fashionable toy |
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| | DL : | The first modern Circus is formed in England by Philip Astley | | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby : Experiment with the Air-Pump | | PH : | Ali Bey, leader of the Mamelukes, Sultan of Egypt | | PH : | Gurkhas conquer Nepal | | RP : | Abraham Booth: Reign of Grace | | RP : | Joseph Priestley: Essay on the First Principles of Government | | RP : | Swedenborg: Delititiae sapientiae | | VA : | Founding of the Royal Academy, London, with Joshua Reynolds as president | | ST : | James Cook sails on first circumnavigation | | DL : | New criminal code, on humanist principles, introduced in Austria | | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Canal dies 20 April | | VA : | John Crome born 22 December |
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| | M : | Joseph Haydn : Symphony
No.48, 'Maria Theresa'
| | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : Inspiration | | DL : | Privy council in London decides to retain tea duty in American colonies | | RP : | Charles Bonnet: Palingénésie philosophique | | RP : | Pope Clement XIII dies; Lorenzo Ganganelli becomes Pope Clement XIV | | RP : | Johann Gottfried von Herder: Kritische Wälder | | ST : | N.J. Cugnot constructs first steam road carriage | | DL : | The Morning Chronicle issued in London | | DL : | Johann Friedrich Oberlin opens first crêche at Steintal, Alsace |
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| | DL : | Louis, the future king of France, marries Marie Antoinette | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Paride ed Elena
| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Portrait of Jonathan Buttall | | VA : | George Stubbs : A Horse Frightened by a Lion | | VA : | Benjamin West : Self Portrait | | VA : | Benjamin West : The Death of General Wolfe | | RP : | Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents | | RP : | Kant: De mundi sensibilie et intelligibilis forma et principiis | | ST : | James cook discovers Botany Bay, Australia | | ED : | Elementary school education reformed in Austria | | ST : | English "Quack" John Hill introduces method of obtaining specimens for microscopic study | | ST : | Leonhard Euler: Introduction to Algebra | | DL : | First public restaurant opens in Paris | | DL : | Visiting cards introduced in England | | VA : | Giambattista Tiepolo dies 27 March | | LT : | William Wordsworth born 7 April | | VA : | Baron François Gérard born 4 May | | VA : | François Boucher dies 30 May | | M : | Ludwig van Beethoven born 17 December | | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : The Love Letter | | VA : | Hubert Robert : The Burning of the Hötel-Dieu during the Night of 29-30 December 1772
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| | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : The Meeting | | PH : | Gustav III succeeds his father as king of Sweden | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin : Self Portrait at the Easel | | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet : Clair de lune | | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby : The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone | | PH : | Adolphus Frederick of Sweden dies; succeeded by Gustavus III | | ED : | Encyclopaedia Britannica, first edition | | RP : | John William Fletcher: Five Checks to Antinomianism | | ED : | William Robertson: History of America | | VA : | Horace Walpole: Anecdotes of Painting | | ST : | Luigi Galvani discovers electrical nature of nervous impulse | | ST : | The Smeatonian Club for engineers founded in London | | DL : | The Assembly room, Bath, England, opened | | DL : | New York Hospital founded | | VA : | Baron Antoine-Jean Gros born 16 March | | LT : | Sir Walter Scott born 15 August |
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| | VA : | Louis Tocqué dies | | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Poems | | M : | Joseph Haydn : Symphony
No.45, 'Farewell'
| | PH : | Boston Assembly demands rights of colonies, threatens secession | | DL : | Royal Marriage Act in Britain to prevent undesirable royal marriages | | PH : | First Partition of Poland | | LT : | The Göttinger Hainbund, society of young patriotic German poets, formed | | ED : | Herder: On the Origin of Speech, on comparative philology | | RP : | Inquisition abolished in France | | RP : | Mirabeau: Essai sur le despotisme | | RP : | F.S. Sullivan, Irish jurist: Lectures on the Feudal Law and the Constitution and Laws of England | | M : | Flight and Kelly, London firm of organ builders, produces first barrel organs | | ST : | Leonhard Eurler: Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne, on mechanics, optics, acoustics, and astronomy | | ST : | Daniel Rutherford and Joseph Priestley independently discover nitrogen | | DL : | Judge William Murray decides in the Somerset case that a slave is free on landing in England | | LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge born 21 October |
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| | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Exsultate, Jubilate
('Exult, Rejoice') for soprano and orchestra.
| | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds : Ladies Adorning
a Term of Hymen | | VA : | Hubert Robert : Landscape with an Arch and The Dome of St Peter's in Rome
| | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien : Young Greek Maidens Deck Sleeping Cupid With Flowers | | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien : Lover Crowning His Mistress | | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby : The Iron Forge Viewed from Without | | LT : | Swedish national theatre established in Stockholm | | RP : | Pope Clement XIV dissolves Jesuit Order | | RP : | John Eerskine: Institutes of the Law in Scotland | | RP : | Joseph II expels Jesuits from the Empire | | M : | Charles Burney: The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces | | M : | The waltz becomes fashionable in Vienna | | ED : | Philadelphia Museum founded | | DL : | 10 May - British East India Company Regulating Act | | DL : | 29-30 November - Boston Tea Party: protest against tea duty |
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| | PH : | Louis XVI becomes King of France | | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Werther | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Iphigénie en Aulide
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.29
| | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli : Landscape with the Education of Bacchus | | PH : | Quebec Act, to secure Canada's loyalty to Great Britain, established Roman Catholicism in Canada | | PH : | Louis XV, King of France, dies; succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI | | PH : | First Continental Congress meets GO ! | | PH : | Accession of Abdul Hamid I as Sultan of Turkey | | LT : | Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son, on how a gentleman should behave | | RP : | John Campbell: A Political Survey of Great Britain | | RP : | John Cartwright: American Independence, the Glory and Interest of great Britain | | RP : | Jesuits expelled from Poland | | RP : | Anne Lee of Massachusetts settles in New York to begin a spiritualist revival | | ST : | Aust. physician F.A. Mesmer uses hypnosis for health purposes | | ED : | Swiss educator Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi founds school for orphaned and neglected children in Zurich to enable them to lead productive lives | | VA : | Caspar David Friedrich born 5 September |
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| | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Devotional Pieces | | VA : | Gavin Hamilton : Priam Pleading with Achilles
for the Body of Hector | | PH : | Peasant's revolts in Bohemia against servitude | | PH : | American Revolution begins GO ! | | RP : | Cardinal Gianangelo Braschi elected in Feb as Pope Pius VI after a long conclave | | RP : | Justus Moser: Patriotische Phantasien, plea for one organic Germany | | ST : | Digitalis used for first time as a diuretic in dropsy | | ST : | J.C. Fabricius: Systema entomolgiae, classification of insects | | ST : | Pierre-Simon Girard invents water turbine | | ST : | James Watt perfects his invention of the Steam engine | | DL : | First British banks' clearinghouse established in Lombard Street, London | | DL : | First Thames Regatta | | VA : | Joseph Mallord William Turner born 23 April |
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| | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : A Young Girl Reading | | PH : | Treaty of Copenhagen between Russia and Denmark | | RP : | John Cartwright: Take your Choice, on parliamentary reform | | ED : | Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | | RP : | Richard Price:Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America | | RP : | Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | | M : | Charles Burney: History of Music | | M : | Concerts of Ancient Music, London | | DL : | U.S. Congress institutes a national lottery | | DL : | Military ski competitions in Norway | | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto dies | | M : | Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann born 24 January | | VA : | John Constable born 11 June | | PH : | 4 July - Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence GO ! |
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| | RP : | Christianity introduced in Korea | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Armide
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Paternal Curse | | LT : | Court and National Theatre, Mannheim, founded | | RP : | Joseph Priestley: Disquisition Relating to Matter and Spirit | | ST : | American engineer David Bushnell invents torpedo | | ST : | Lavoisier proves that air consists mainly of oxygen and nitrogen | | DL : | Stars and Stripes adopted as Continental Congress flag | | M : | Heinrich Heine born 13 December |
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| | PH : | War of Bavarian Succession | | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Lessons for Children of Two to Three Years Old and Lessons for Children of Three Years Old | | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Iphigénie en Tauride
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Portrait of Count
Stroganov as a Child | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Wicked
Son Punished | | VA : | Benjamin West : Romeo and Juliet | | PH : | American colonies sign treaties with France and Holland GO ! | | RP : | G.L.L. Buffon: Epoques de la Nature | | RP : | J.A. Deluc: Lettres physiques et morals sur les montagnes | | M : | La Scala, Milan, opened | | ST : | James cook discovers Hawaii | | DL : | Act of Congress prohibits import of slaves into the U.S. | | VA : | Giovanni Battista Piranesi dies 9 November |
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| | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Heilig
for two choruses
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart :
Sinfonia Concertante
| | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby : Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome | | PH : | Spain declares war on Britian | | PH : | British war against Mahrattas in India | | LT : | Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets | | RP : | David Hume: Dialogues of Natural Religion (posth.) | | ST : | James Rennel: "Bengal Atlas" | | DL : | First children's clinic, London | | DL : | The Derby established at Epson racetrack, Surrey, England | | DL : | Pope Pius VI begins draining Pontine Marshes | | DL : | First 'velocipedes' appear in Paris | | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs dies 29 June | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin dies 6 December |
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| | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : Education is Everything | | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : Fête at Rambouillet | | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Young Woman
in a White Hat | | PH : | Henry Grattan demands Home Rule for Ireland | | PH : | Gordon riots in London ("No Popery") | | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Bohemia and Hungary | | PH : | Empress Maria Theresa dies; succeeded by her son Joseph II | | PH : | Outbreak of Second Mysore War | | PH : | Rebellion in Peru against Spanish rule | | RP : | Gaetano Filangieri: Science of Legislation | | M : | Spanish dance 'bolero' invented | | M : | Sébastien Erard makes first modern pianoforte | | ST : | Circular saw invented by Gervinus | | ST : | American Academy of Sciences founded at Boston | | DL : | Scheller constructs first fountain pen | | DL : | The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, first Sunday newspapers, appear in London | | VA : | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born 29 August | | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto dies 17 October | | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : The Stolen Kiss |
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| | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Nightmare | | ST : | William Herschel discovers the Planet Uranus | | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Hymns in Prose for Children | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Sonata
No.11 in A
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Horn Concerto
No.4
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Serenade No.10
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, Idomeneo
| | PH : | Warren Hastings deposes Rajah of Benares, plunders treasure of the Nabob of Oudh | | ED : | Clarendon Press, Oxford, established | | RP : | Franciscan monks settle at Los Angeles | | DL : | Joseph II grants patent of religious tolerance and freedom of press in Austria | | RP : | Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, fundamental work of modern philosophy | | RP : | Moses Mendelssohn: On the Civil Amelioration of the Condition of the Jews | | M : | Johann Adam Hiller establishes the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig | | ST : | Herschel discovers the planet Uranus | | ST : | Composition of mineral tungsten discovered | | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Aust. dominions |
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| | VA : | Henry Fuseli : The Three Witches | | LT : | William Blake: Poetical Sketches | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio
| | M : | Joseph Haydn : Six string quartets
published as Opus 33
| | VA : | Francesco Guardi : Concert | | VA : | George Romney : Lady Hamilton as 'Nature' | | PH : | Tippoo Sahib succeeds Hyder Ali in Mysore | | PH : | Rama I founds new dynasty in Siam, makes Bangkok his capital | | PH : | Pope Pius VI in Vienna fails to persuade Joseph II to rescind program of tolerance | | RP : | Joseph Priestley: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity | | ED : | Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, founded | | RP : | Dugald Stewart: Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | | ST : | Montgolfier brothers construct air balloon | | ST : | James Watt invents double-acting rotary steam engine | | PH : | Bank of North America established in Philadelphia | | VA : | Richard Wilson dies 15 May | | M : | Nicolò Paganini born 27 October |
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| | ST : | First successful hot-air ballon flight
| | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau dies | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.36, 'Linz'
| | PH : | Great Britain recognises American independence | | DL : | Joseph II enforces Germ. language in Bohemia | | DL : | Famine in Japan | | ST : | William Herschel: Motion of the Solar System in Space | | RP : | Kant: Prolegomen to Any Possible Metaphysics | | RP : | Moses Mendelssohn: Jerusalem, plea for freedom of conscience | | RP : | Charles Simeon begins evangelical movement at Cambridge | | DL : | Bank of Ireland founded | | DL : | Civil marriage and divorce in Aust. dominions |
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| | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds : Portrait of Mrs. Siddons
as the Tragic Muse | | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : The Oath of the Horatii | | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Lady Macbeth | | PH : | Treaty of Constantinople: Turkey agrees to Russian annexation of the Crimea | | PH : | Joseph II abrogates constitution in Hungary, suppressing feudal rights | | RP : | First Anglican bishop for the colonies | | ED : | Bengal Asiatic Society (study of Sanskrit) founded by William Jones | | RP : | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Etudes de la nature | | RP : | Herder: Ideas Toward a Philosophy of History | | RP : | Kant: Notion of a Universal History in a Cosmopolitan Sense | | RP : | John Wesley's Deed of Declaration, the charter of Wesleyan Methodism | | ST : | Swiss inventor Aimé Argant designs oil burner | | ST : | Eng. mathematician George Atwood accurately determines acceleration of a free-falling body | | ST : | Joseph Bramah constructs first patent lock | | ST : | Goethe discovers human intermaxillary bone | | ST : | Scot. millwright Andrew Meikle invents threshing machine | | ED : | First school for the blind in Paris | | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Denmark | | VA : | Allan Ramsay dies 10 August |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.20
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.21
| | VA : | George Stubbs : Haymaking | | PH : | Der Fürstenbund (League of German Princes) formed by Frederick the Great against Joseph II | | PH : | Commercial Treaty signed between Prussia and the U.S. | | LT : | The Reverend James Wilmot of Warwickshire identifies Francis Bacon, as author of Shakespeare's plays | | ED : | Educational reforms in Germany | | RP : | Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics | | PH : | James Madison's Religious Freedom Act abolishes religious tests in Virginia | | RP : | William Paley: Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy | | ST : | Salsano: seismograph for measuring earthquakes | | VA : | Pietro Longhi dies 8 May |
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| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.38, 'Prague'
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.23
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, The Marriage of Figaro
| | M : | Joseph Haydn :
'Paris' symphonies (including No.82 and No.83, 'The Bear' and 'The Hen')
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.24
| | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices | | PH : | Frederick the Great dies; succeeded by his nephew Frederick William II | | LT : | Berlin Court Theatre opens | | RP : | Mennonites from Central Europe settle in Canada | | ST : | William Herschel: Catalogue of Nebulae | | ST : | M.H.Klaproth, Ger. chemist, discovers uranium | | ST : | American inventor H.James Rumsey designs first mechanically driven boat | | ST : | Earliest attempts at internal gas lighting in Germany and England | | M : | Carl Maria von Weber born 18 November |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : The Woodsman | | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Serenade, Eine kleine Nachtmusik
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, Il dissoluto punito, ossia Il Don Giovanni
('The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni')
| | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds : Heads of Angels | | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : The Death of Socrates
| | VA : | Hubert Robert : The Pont du Gard | | VA : | George Romney : Miss Constable | | PH : | Aust. Netherlands declared province of Hapsburg monarchy | | PH : | Parliament of Paris demands summoning of States-General | | PH : | Turkey declares war on Russia | | RP : | John Adams: A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the U.S.A. | | RP : | Jeremy Bentham: Defence of usury | | ED : | Imperial Russian Dictionary with 285 words in 200 languages | | RP : | James Madison: The Vices of the Political System of the United States | | ST : | Lavoisier: Méthode de nomenclature chimique | | DL : | Dollar currency introduced in the US | | DL : | English settlement founded for freed slaves in Sierra Leone | | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni dies 4 February |
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| | DL : | London's Daily Universal Register becomes the Times | | LT : | William Blake: Natural Religion | | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Double Concerto
for Harpsichord, Piano and Orchestra in Eb
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.39
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concerto
for Flute and Harp in C Major
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.40
| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.41 ('Jupiter')
| | PH : | Austria declares war on Turkey | | DL : | Brit. parliamentary motion for abolition of slave trade | | PH : | George III's first attack of mental illness; regency crisis in England | | RP : | Kant Critique of Practical Reason | | ED : | John Lemprière: Classical Dictionary | | RP : | Hannah More: Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society | | ST : | James Hutton: New Theory of the Earth | | ST : | Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace: Laws of the Planetary System | | DL : | Bread riots in France | | DL : | First German cigar factory opens | | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron born 22 January | | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour dies 17 February | | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough dies 2 August | | M : | C.P.E. Bach dies 14 December | | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli dies 30 December |
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