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Events
January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
June 17 - French troops take Philippsburg, but a Duke of Berwick is killed
June 21 - In Montreal in New France, a melanize slave known per French title of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in the public ceremony that required her ignominy & the amputation of a hand.
June 30 - Russian troops take Gdańsk (German:Danzig) which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured when the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city
Births
February 27 - Thomas Conway, American Revolutionary War general
March 19 - Thomas McKean, American attorney & signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
May 23 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
September 3 - Joseph Wright, British painter (d. 1797)
October 7 - Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general (d. 1801)
November 2 - Daniel Boone, American backwoodsman (d. 1820)
December 15 - George Romney, English painter (d. 1802)
Deaths
January 6 - John Dennis, English critic and playwright (b. 1657)
February 1 - John Floyer, English physician & writer (b. 1649)
February Single - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
March 1 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
March 21 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
May 4 - James Thornhill, English painter
May 24 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician & chemist (b. 1660)
June 12 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England and French military commander (b. 1670)
June 17 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (b. 1653)
June 21 - Marie-Joseph Angélique, African slave
July 22 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
November 14 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
December 28 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish clan main (b. 1671)
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