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ASTRONOMY

William Herschel discovers Uranus

Charles Messier publishes final catalogue of Messier Objects

BIOLOGY

Felix Fontana uses a microscope to describe the axon of a brain cell

CHEMISTRY

Carl Wilhelm Scheele ascertains that a new Acid could be made from tungstenite, leading to the discovery of Tungsten in 1783

AWARDS

BIRTHS

January 30 - Adelbert Von Chamisso , poet, botanist (died 1838 )

February 17 - Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec , French physician, inventor of the Stethoscope (died 1826 )

June 9 - George Stephenson , locomotive engineer (died 1848 )

June 21 - Simeon Poisson , mathematician (died 1840 )

July 6 - Thomas Stamford Raffles , founder of the Zoological Society Of London (died 1826)

October 5 - Bernhard Bolzano , mathematician (died 1848)

December 11 - David Brewster , Scottish physicist (died 1868 )

DEATHS