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1726
| 1726 • The Gujin Tushu Jicheng, an immense Chinese encyclopedia, is printed using copper-based movable type printing. |
1727
Feb 1
Age: 1y
christeningAlbany, New York, USA ⇓ At the first Dutch Reformed Church. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1727 • Première of Johann Sebastian Bach's solo cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82, in Leipzig. |
1750
May 29
Age: 24y
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marriageJohannes Van Deusen Claverack, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1750 • Ahmad Shah Bahadur's army, retreating from Persia, reportedly loses 18,000 men near what is present-day Herat, Afghanistan from cold in a single night. |
1754
Sep 27
Age: 28y
birth of childGloude Van Deusen |
| 1754 • Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. |
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 • Thursday July 19: The Great Stockholm Fire 1759 broke out at Södermalm. |
1761
Nov 14
Age: 35y
birth of childJohn Van Deusen |
| 1761 • Seven Years' War: After four months of siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolberg. |
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 • William Wordsworth writes "Upon Westminster Bridge." |
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. |