| VA : | Pietro Longhi born | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Motet, Judicium Salomonis
('Solomon's Judgement')
| M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Mass, Assumpta est Maria
('The Assumption of Mary')
| VA : | Antoine Coypel : Venus Imploring Jupiter in Favour of Aeneas | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Denmark | DL : | The Daily Courant, first daily newspaper issued in London | ED : | Jesuit college founded in Breslau | DL : | Asiento Guinea Company founded for slave trade between Africa and America | VA : | Japanese painter Ogata Korin unites the two imperial schools of Japanese painting - Kano and Yamato | RP : | Armenian Priest Mekhitar of Sebaste founds in Constantinople Order of the Mekhitarists, Roman Catholic Armenian monks | RP : | Cotton Mather: Magnalia Christi Americana, ecclesiastical history of New England | RP : | Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with Dissenters | LT : | Edward Busshe: The Art of English Poetry | PH : | Rebellion of Protestant peasants, "Camisards", in Cévennes | LT : | Earliest form of English pantomime given at Drury Lane, London | PH : | William III dies, succeeded by Queen Anne    GO ! | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli born 15 August |
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| PH : | Treaty of Methuen signed by Britain and Portugal | DL : | Peter the Great lays foundations of St. Petersburg | ST : | Isaac Newton elected President of the Royal Society | PH : | Archduke Charles proclaimed King of Spain in Madrid | ED : | Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Classical Dictionary | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto born | VA : | François Boucher born 29 September |
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| DL : | Earliest subscription library in Berlin | ST : | Isaac Newton: Optics, defence of the theory of light | ST : | John Harris : Lexicon technicum, encyclopaedia of the sciences | ED : | Dictionnaire de Trévoux, of terms used in arts and sciences, published by the Jesuits at Trévoux | PH : | Augustus II of Poland deposed, Stanislas Leszczynski elected King Stanislas I | M : | Marc-Antoine Charpentier dies 24 February | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour born 5 September |
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| PH : | Turkish Authority overthrown in Tunis | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach :
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, for organ
| ST : | Royal Observatory, Berlin, founded | LT : | His Majesty's Theatre opens in London | ST : | Edmund Halley correctly predicts the return in 1758 of the comet seen in 1682 | PH : | The Emperor Leopold I dies; succeeded by his eldest son, Joseph I | VA : | Charles-André van Loo born 15 February |
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| M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Griselda
| ST : | Olous Römer's catalogue of astronomical observations | RP : | Mathew Tindal: Rights of the Christian Church | PH : | Peace of Altrandstadt: Augustus renouces Polish throne, recognises King Stanislas I | M : | Johann Pachelbel dies 7 March |
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| PH : | Act of Union, Scotland and England become one country | PH : | Death of Aurangzeb leads to the disintegration of the Mughal Empire | M : | Great German organ builder Gottfried Silbermann builds first organ at Frauenstein, Saxony | ED : | Edward Lhuyd: Archeologica Britannica, on Celtic language | RP : | Isaac Watts: Hymns and Spiritual Songs | PH : | Aurangzeb, Mogul Emperor of Hindustan dies; succeeded by Bahadur Shah | PH : | "Perpetual Alliance" signed between Prussia and Sweden | PH : | King Peter II of Portugal dies; succeeded by John V | M : | Dietrich Buxtehude dies 9 May |
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| M : | Tomaso Albinoni : Opera, Vespetta e Pimpione
| ED : | Professorship of poetry founded at Oxford University | RP : | Jeremy Collier: The Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain | ED : | Bernard de Montfaucon: Paleographia Graeca | LT : | First German theatre opens in Vienna | DL : | British East India Company and New East India Company merged | PH : | Peter the Great divides Russia into eight government districts to ease administration | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni born 25 January |
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| LT : | Alexander Pope: Pastorals | M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Agrippina
| DL : | First Russian prisoners sent to Siberia | DL : | First Copyright Act in Britain | M : | Invention of the pianoforte | RP : | John Strype: Annals of the Reformation | PH : | Ienobe becomes Shogun in Japan | PH : | 14,000 inhabitants of the Palatinate emigrate to North America | PH : | Peace negotiations at The Hague |
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| RP : | George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge | LT : | The Examiner, literary periodical, issued for first time | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dog and Game | VA : | Sir James Thornhill : The Apotheosis of Romulus | RP : | William King: An Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes | RP : | Leibniz: Théodicée (God Created the best of all possible worlds) | RP : | Cotton Mather: Essays to Do Good | DL : | English South Sea Company founded | VA : | Jakob Christoph Le Blon invents three-colour printing | DL : | Porcelain factory at Meissen, Saxony, founded |
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| LT : | Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life with Dead Hare and Fruit | VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Still Life (Summer) | PH : | War between Russia and Turkey | PH : | Joseph I dies is ultimately succeeded by his brother Charles VI, father of Maria Theresa | RP : | Francis Atterbury: Representation of the State of Religion | ED : | Berlin Academy started | RP : | Anthony Ashley Cooper: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times | ED : | Thomas Maddox: The History of Antiquities of the Exchequer | RP : | William Whiston: Primitive Christianity Revived | VA : | London Academy of Arts established under Geoffrey Kneller | M : | Clarinet for first time in an orchestra (in J.A.Hasse's opera Croesus) | M : | Tuning fork invented (supposedly by John Shore) |
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| ST : | The First Industrial Revolution begins when Newcomen's Steam Engine
is installed at the Dudley Castle Coal Mine | LT : | Alexander Pope: early version of The Rape of the Lock | PH : | Peace congress opens at Utrecht | PH : | Treaty of Aarau ends Swiss war | PH : | War of Succession between Shah Bahadur's four sons in India | ED : | Jonathan Swift: A Proposal for Correcting the English Language | ED : | Académie des sciences, belles lettres et arts, Bordeaux, founded | ED : | Biblioteca nacional, Madrid, founded | ST : | Cotton Mather begins his Curiosa Americana | RP : | Last execution for witchraft in England | DL : | Slave revolts in New York | VA : | Francesco Guardi born 5 October |
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| PH : | The Pragmactic Sanction by Charles VI, allowing Maria Theresa to become the Monarch of Austria | DL : | Asentio Treaty signed by Britain and Spain. This treaty begins the most active period of the British slave trade | DL : | King Friedrich I dies and his son Friedrich Wilhelm becomes King of Prussia | LT : | Alexander Pope: Windsor Forest | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book I
| M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Canata
No.208 ('Where Sheep May Safely Graze)
| PH : | King Frederick I of Prussia dies; succeeded by Frederick William I | PH : | Peace of Adrianople between Turkey and Russia | PH : | Pragmatic Sanction issued by the Emperor Charles VI states female right of succession in Hapsburg domains | PH : | An infant, Ietsugu, becomes Shogun of Japan | LT : | Scriblerus Club founded in London by Swift, Pope, Congreve, and others | RP : | Arthur Collier: Clavis Universalis, or A New Inquiry After Truth | RP : | Fénelon: Traité de l'existence et des attributs de Dieu | RP : | Abbé Saint Pierre: Projet pour la paix perpétuelle | ED : | Spanish Royal Academy, Madrid, founded | M : | School of Dance established at Paris Opéra | ST : | Board of Longitude in England | ST : | Roger Cotes revises Newton's Principia | DL : | Pigtails introduced in Prussian Army | PH : | 11 April - The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War | VA : | Allan Ramsay born 13 October |
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| PH : | George I of Hanover became King of England | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Little Organ Book
| PH : | Peace of Rastatt between France and the Holy Roman Empire | PH : | Queen Anne of England dies; succeeded by George Louis, elector of Hanover, as King George I | PH : | Peace of Baden: France keeps Strasbourg and Alsace | RP : | Gottfried Arnold: Unpartheyische Kirchen-und Ketzer-Historie | ED : | Worcester College, Oxford, founded | ST : | D.G. Fahrenheit constructs mercury thermometer with temperature scale | RP : | Witch trials abolished in Prussia | M : | C.P.E. Bach born 8 March | VA : | Richard Wilson born 1 August | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet born 14 August |
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| PH : | The First Jacobite uprising | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau born | M : | François Couperin : Concerts Royaux
| M : | François Couperin : Trois Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint
for voice and basso continuo
motets for voice and instruments, "dans le style de Charpentier"
| VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Jupiter & Antiope | PH : | First Parliament of George I opens | PH : | Louis XIV of France dies; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV (age 5) | PH : | Jacobite rebellion in Scotland | PH : | Mir Abdullah becomes ruler in Kandahar | RP : | Isaac Watts: Divine Songs for Children | VA : | Early beginnings of rococo | LT : | Vaudevilles, popular musical comedies, appear in Paris | ST : | British mathematician Brook Taylor invents the calculus of finite differences | VA : | English painter and architect William Kent "frees the English garden from formality" |
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| VA : | Joseph Marie Vien born | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Portrait of Pater | PH : | The Emperor Charles VI declares war on Turkey | PH : | Treaty of Westminster between England and the Emperor | PH : | Yoshimune becomes Shogun of Japan | RP : | Christian religious teaching prohibited in China | M : | Couperin: L'Art de toucher le clavecin | DL : | Scot. economist John Law establishes the Banque générale in France | DL : | Royal Regiment of Artillary founded |
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| LT : | Alexander Pope: Collected works | M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book II
| M : | George Frideric Handel :
Chandos Anthems
| M : | George Frideric Handel : Instrumental, Water Music
| VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Assemblée dans un parc | VA : | Jean-Marc Nattier : Portrait of Peter I | PH : | Mongols occupy Lhasa | RP : | Cardinal de Retz: Mémoires (posth.) | ST : | Inoculation against smallpox introduced in England | DL : | Mother Grand Lodge of Freemasons established in London | DL : | School attendance in Prussia made compulsory | M : | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz born 19 June |
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| VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Mezzetin | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, Il trionfo dell'onore ovvero Il dissoluto pentito
| M : | George Frideric Handel : Pastoral Opera, Acis and Galatea
| VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Pilgrims Leaving the Isle of Cythera | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Gilles as Pierrot | VA : | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini : Apollo | PH : | Peter the Great has his son and heir, Alexis, murdered | PH : | Peace of Passarowitz ends war between the Empire and Turkey | PH : | Quadruple Alliance signed by France, the Empire, England, and Holland | PH : | England declares war on Spain | ED : | Accademia dei Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti founded at Palermo | ED : | Philibert-Joseph Le Roux: Dictionnaire comique, satryique, critque, burlesque, libre, et proverbial | ED : | London Society of Antiquaries founded | ST : | English inventor Sir Thomas Lombe patents machine which makes thrown silk | ED : | Collegiate School of America transfers to new site in New Haven, and is renamed Yale University | DL : | First bank notes in England |
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| PH : | France declares war on Spain | PH : | Liechtenstein becomes independent principalilty | PH : | Peace of Stockholm between Sweden and Hanover | PH : | Ireland declared inseparable from England | PH : | Mohammed Shah, grandson of Bahadur Shah, becomes the Great Mogul | RP : | Jesuits expelled from Russia | M : | Dimitrie Cantemir writes first book on Turkish music, Tratat de musica Turcéasea | DL : | The Boston Gazette founded | DL : | Oriental Company founded in Vienna to trade in the East | DL : | Westminster Hospital, London, founded | DL : | First cricket match: "Londoners" vs. "Kentish Men" |
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| VA : | Nicolas Lancret : Fete in a Wood | M : | George Frideric Handel : Harpsichord Suite
No.5
| VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : A Halt During the Chase | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : Italian Comedians | PH : | Treaty of Stockholm between Sweden and Prussia | PH : | Ulrica, Queen of Sweden, abdicates; succeeded by her husband Frederick, Prince of Hesse-Cassel | PH : | Treaty of Fredericksborg between Sweden and Denmark | DL : | "South Sea Bubble", English speculation craze, bursts | PH : | Pragmatic Sanction recognised by estates of Upper and Lower Austria | PH : | Tibet becomes a Chinese protectorate | LT : | Old Haymarket theatre opens in London | LT : | First serialisation of novels in newspapers | ED : | Bernard de Montfaucon: L'Antiquité expliquée | DL : | Palatinate court moved from Heidelberg to Mannheim | DL : | Wallpapers becomes fashionable in England | DL : | First yacht club established at Cork Harbour, Ireland | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto born 30 January | VA : | Giovanni Battista Piranesi born 4 October |
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| PH : | Treaty of Nystad signed by Russia and Sweden, ends the Great Northern War | ST : | Dutch Navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Samoa and Easter Island | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti : Opera, La Griselda
| M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg Concertos
| VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau : L'Enseigne de Gersaint | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still life with Fruit
| VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Dead Wolf
| VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Dead Roe | PH : | Peter I proclaimed Emperor of All the Russians | PH : | China suppresses Formosa revolt | ED : | Nathaniel Bailey: An Universal Etymologycal English dictionary | RP : | Michele Angelo Conti elected Pope Innocent XIII in succession to Pope Clement XI | ED : | Johann Theodor Jablonski of Danzig publishes his Allgemeines Lexikon, first short encyclopaedia | DL : | Swiss immigrants introduced rifles into America | VA : | Jean-Antoine Watteau dies 18 July |
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| M : | François Couperin : Pièces de Clavecin
Book III
| M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier,
first book
| M : | Tomaso Albinoni : 12 Concertos
| VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Allegory of Europe | PH : | Mir Mahmud conquers Afghanistan and becomes Shah | DL : | Austrian East India Company founded | PH : | With Shih Tsung the Yung Cheng dynasty accedes in China | PH : | Hernhut founded as Moravian settlement in Saxony by Count Zinzendorf | VA : | James Gibbs builds St. Martin-in-the-fields, London | M : | Hohann Metheson: Critica Musica, on musical criticism | M : | Rameau: Traité de l'harmonie | DL : | British Parliament forbids journalists to report debates | DL : | Workhouse Test Act for care of poor | VA : | Antoine Coypel dies 7 January |
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| VA : | Gavin Hamilton born | M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : Cantata
No.147 (including 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring')
| M : | Johann Sebastian Bach : St. John Passion
| VA : | François Le Moyne : Perseus and Andromeda | VA : | François Le Moyne : Hunting Picnic | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : The Alarm | PH : | Louis XV attains majority | PH : | Treaty of Charlottenburg between England and Prussia | PH : | Prussia establishes a ministry of war, finance, and domains | ED : | T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng, Chinese encyclopaedia | ED : | Lodovico Antonio Muratori: Rerum italicarum scriptores, collection of medieval historical material | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds born 16 July |
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| M : | George Frideric Handel : Opera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto
('Julius Caesar in Egypt')
| VA : | Alexandre Francois Desportes : Dog Guarding Game near a Rosebush | VA : | Nicolas Lancret : The Seat of Justice in
the Parliament of Paris | VA : | François Le Moyne : Hercules and Omphale
| VA : | François Le Moyne : Bather | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Oudry : Still Life with a Monkey, Fruit and Flowers | PH : | Philip V of Spain abdicates; his successor Luis I dies, Philip King again | PH : | Czar Peter the Great crowns his wife, Catherine, Czarina | LT : | Longman's the oldest English publishing house still extant, founded | ED : | John Oldmixon: A Critical History of England | ED : | Professorships of modern history and languages founded at Oxford and Cambridge | M : | Three Choirs Festival founded for Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester | ED : | Daniel Defoe: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain | DL : | Gin drinking becomes popular in Great Britain | DL : | Paris Bourse opens | VA : | George Stubbs born 24 August |
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| PH : | Peter the Great, King of Russia dies | PH : | Peter the Great of Russia dies; succeeded by his wife Catherine | PH : | Treaty of Vienna guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction | PH : | Louis XV of France marries Maria Leszczynska of Poland | PH : | Ashraf, Shah of Afghanistan, succeeds Mahmud in Persia | RP : | Frances Hutcheson: An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue | M : | J.J.Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum, treatise on counterpoint | M : | First public concert given in Paris | M : | Prague opera house (Standetheater) founded | ST : | Guillaume Delisle "Map of Europe" | ED : | St. Petersburg Academy of Science founded by Catherine I | DL : | George I revives Military Order of the Bath | DL : | The New York Gazette issued | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze born 21 August | M : | Alessandro Scarlatti dies 22 October |
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| M : | François Couperin : Les Nations
4 grand Sonatas
| VA : | François Le Moyne : The Continence of Scipio | VA : | Jean-François de Troy : Diana at Rest | PH : | Alliances between Empire and Russia against Turkey | RP : | St. John of the Cross canonised | RP : | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim: Institutiones historiae ecclesiasticae | DL : | First circulating library established by Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh |
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| 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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