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| align="center" colspan=2 | ''' 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s
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| align="center" | - 18th Century ''' - 19th Century
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Events
Ongoing events
Births
- January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , German philosopher (d. 1819 )
- February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks , British naturalist and botanist (d. 1820 )
- February 19 - Luigi Boccherini , Italian composer (d. 1805 )
- February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild , German-born banker (d. 1812 )
- March 4 - Johann David Wyss , Swiss author (d. 1818 )
- April 13 - Thomas Jefferson , 3rd President Of The United States (d. 1826 )
- May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d. 1784 )
- August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier , French chemist (d. 1794 )
- September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard , Danish painter (d. 1809 )
- September 17 - Marquis De Condorcet , French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d. 1794 )
- December 23 - Ippolit Bogdanovich , Russian poet (d. 1803 )
- José Fernando De Abascal , Spanish viceroy of Peru
- Károly Hadaly , Hungarian mathematician
Deaths
- January 29 - Cardinal André-Hercule De Fleury, Bishop Of Fréjus , chief minister of France under Louis XV (b. 1653 )
- January 29 - Charles-Irénée Castel De Saint-Pierre , French writer (b. 1658 )
- February 18 - Anna Maria Luisa De' Medici , last of the Medicis (b. 1667 )
- April 4 - Daniel Neal , English historian (b. 1678 )
- July 2 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl Of Wilmington , English statesman
- August 5 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey , English statesman and writer (b. 1696 )
- September 14 - Nicolas Lancret , French painter (b. 1690 )
- September 21 - Jai Singh II , King of Amber-Juiper, India (b. 1688 )
- October 4 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke Of Argyll , Scottish soldier (b. 1678 )
- December 27 - Hyacinthe Rigaud , French painter (b. 1659 )
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