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ASTRONOMY

Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach publishes "The Tables of the Sun", an essential early work for navigation

EXPLORATION

George Vancouver explores Puget Sound , and becomes first European to see Mount Rainier

TECHNOLOGY

Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first Semaphore line, between Paris and Lille

William Murdoch invents gas lighting

George Anschutz constructs the first Blast Furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

AWARDS

BIRTHS

January 12 - Johann Arfvedson , chemist (died 1841 )

February 17 - Karl Ernst Von Baer , naturalist (died 1876 )

March 7 - John Herschel , mathematician and astronomer (died 1871 )

May 21 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis , mathematician, discoverer of the Coriolis Effect (died 1843 )

DEATHS

October 28 - John Smeaton , civil engineer (born 1724 )