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CHEMISTRY

Hilaire Rouelle discovers Urea

EXPLORATION

January 17 - Captain James Cook becomes the first European explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle

AWARDS

BIRTHS

January 29 - Friedrich Mohs , mineralogist (died 1839 )

May 19 - Arthur Aikin , chemist, mineralogist (died 1854 )

June 10 - Robert Brown , botanist (died 1858 )

June 13 - Thomas Young , physicist (died 1829 )

July 23 - Thomas Brisbane , astronomer (died 1860 )

December 27 - George Cayley , naturalist and inventor (died 1857 )

DEATHS

July 23 - George Edwards , naturalist (born 1693 )