1730
Oct 12
| 1730 • Mahmud I (1730–1754) succeeds Ahmed III (1703–1730) as Ottoman Emperor. |
1742
Sep 21
Age: 11y
| 1742 • Anders Celsius proposes the Celsius temperature scale (see 1741). |
1756
Nov 22
Age: 26y
marriageCharity Williams Wilmington, Delaware, USA ⇓ |
| 1756 • December 14 The play Douglas is performed for the first time in Edinburgh, with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the local church presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation. However, it fails in its early promise to set up a new Scottish dramatic tradition. |
1813
Aug 26
Age: 82y
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birth of childMichael Plaster Martin County, Indiana, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
| 1813 • The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania is founded (the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States). |
1803
Nov
Age: 73y
| 1803 • Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens where they are at risk of destruction during the Ottoman occupation of Greece. |