1768
| 1768 • The Petit Trianon, originally designed for Madame de Pompadour, is completed in the park of the Palace of Versailles and inaugurated by Louis XV of France. |
1797
Age: 29y
marriageAbigail Cadigan County Cork, Ireland ⇓ |
| 1797 • Horatio Nelson is wounded at the Battle of Santa Cruz, losing an arm. |
1798
Age: 30y
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birth of childJohn J Buckley County Cork, Ireland ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1798 • Lyrical Ballads is published anonymously by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, inaugurating the English Romantic movement in literature. |
1851
Age: 83y
| 1851 • Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia. |