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1724
| 1724 • Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, Spanish Captain general of the Río de la Plata, forces the Portuguese to abandon their fortified settlement at what will become the city of Montevideo in Uruguay. |
1745
Age: 21y
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marriageFrances Poindexter 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1745 • The Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia. |
1772
Age: 48y
birth of childSarah Anderson Virginia, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1772 • Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Ocean. |
1782
Age: 58y
| 1782 • Laird of Johnstone, George Ludovic Houston invites people to buy marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of Johnstone, Scotland, to provide employment for his thread and cotton mills. |