Events

• February 23 - First performance of Handel's Orlando, in London
• June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ^*
• December 7 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened
• Genoa regains Corsica
• 139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
• Cobalt discovered

Births

• January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
• February 22 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
• March 31 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
• April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806)
• June 21 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1795)
• September 30 - Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804)
• October 6 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
• November 13 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
• December 6 - Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818)
• December 23 - Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792)
• Abbas III, Shah of Persia

Deaths

• January 12 - John Horsley, British archaeologist
• February 13 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
• February 17 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
• February 22 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
• March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
• May 20 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
• July 16 - Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas
• September 24 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
• October 31 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
• December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)

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