1784

1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Morgansborough, named for Daniel Morgan. The town is designated as the county seat for Burke County, North Carolina and is subsequently renamed Morgantown, which is later shortened to Morganton.
The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King George III of Great Britain, to Kinston.
The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania
Huge locust swarm in South Africa
Cholesterol was isolated
Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula, (n(n+1))/2, at the age of seven

August 10 - Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan - Queen's Necklace Affair begins
August 16 - Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick

December 25 - Methodist Episcopal Church in USA officially formed at so-called "Christmas Conference", led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury

April 26 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
May 12 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
June 13 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
June 26 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1728)
July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
July 31 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
August 10 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
August 14 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
August 28 - Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)
September 4 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
September 8 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
December 4 - Wiseman Claget, English classical scholar (b. 1721)
December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
December 25 - Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
December 26 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726)

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