1749
Oct 26, The Georgia Colony reversed itself and ruled slavery to be legal.
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1749
Oct 26, The Georgia Colony reversed itself and ruled slavery to be legal.
Jeremy Bentham born
1747
James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
Samuel Johnson begins work on "A Dictionary of the English Language"
1746 - June
Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language
1745
The 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie and all that stuff. They lost, so no more Stuarts on the throne of England, hooray!
1744
Meriwether Lewis is born
1743
Austrians capture Munich.
French defeated by English at Dettingen.
1742
february 28 - The armistice between Sweden and Russia expires.
April 13 - The first performance of George Friderich Händel's oratorio The Messiah, in Dublin, Ireland.
May 17 - Frederick the Great's army defeats Austrians in Chotusitz; later Austria cedes Silesia to Prussia
June - The russian army crosses the swedish border. They proceed to occupy all of Finland.
August 9 - The swedish army gets surrounded in Helsinki and capitulates. Many soldiers go awol.
The astronomer Anders Celsius designs the Celsius termometer, but sets the freezing point at 100C and the boling point at 0C. This is later inverted to the form the centergrade scale we know today.
1741 - March 17
French poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau dies
1740
December 16: Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.
1739 - January 1
Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier
1738
Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.
1737
May 28 - The planet Venus passed in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
October 16 An earthquake with a Richter scale magnitude of 9.3 explodes off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia, causing a major tsunami in the Pacific ocean.
Carolus Linnaeus's Genera plantorum explains his method of systematic botany and classifies 18,000 species of plants.
Euler proves that the number e, known as the base for the natural logarithms, and its square are both irrational; that is, they cannot be represented by finite or repeating decimals.
1736 - May 10
English literary critic George Steevens is born
1735
July 11 - July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the last time before 1979.