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1726
| 1726 • Isaac Newton tells William Stukeley the story of how he developed his theory of gravity. |
1727
Feb 1
Age: 1y
christeningAlbany, New York, USA ⇓ At the first Dutch Reformed Church. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1727 • The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid. |
1750
May 29
Age: 24y
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marriageJohannes Van Deusen Claverack, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1750 • The King of Dahomey has income of 250,000 pounds from the overseas export of slaves. |
1754
Sep 27
Age: 28y
birth of childGloude Van Deusen |
| 1754 • Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in 1759 and finally Hillsborough in 1766. |
1757
Dec 27
Age: 32y
birth of childCornelis Van Deusen |
| 1757 • Seven Years' War: Hungarian raiders plunder Berlin. |
1759
Aug 15
Age: 33y
birth of childAriaentje Van Deusen |
| 1759 • Churton Town, the Orange County, North Carolina county seat laid out in 1754, is renamed Childsburgh in honor of North Carolina attorney general Thomas Child. It is later renamed Hillsborough in 1766. |
1761
Nov 14
Age: 35y
birth of childJohn Van Deusen |
| 1761 • A second earthquake occurs in North London, Hampstead and Highgate. |
1764
Jul 12
Age: 38y
birth of childJacobus Van Deusen Claverack, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1764 • English scholar Edward Gibbon conceives the idea of writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol". |
1803
Age: 77y
birth of childJohn V Van Deusen |
| 1803 • Odisha, India is occupied by the British under the British East India Company after the Second Anglo-Maratha War. |
1767
Oct 14
Age: 41y
| 1767 • Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS Swallow by 15-year-old Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on a British Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret, the first definite European sighting. |