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1726
| 1726 • André-Hercule Cardinal de Fleury, recalled from exile by King Louis XV of France, banishes Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, and Madame de Prie from court. |
1727
Feb 1
Age: 1y
christeningAlbany, New York, USA ⇓ At the first Dutch Reformed Church. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1727 • The Netherlands signs the Treaty of Seville. |
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 • The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians. |
1757
Dec 27
Age: 32y
birth of childCornelis Van Deusen |
| 1757 • Seven Years' War – Battle of Prague (1757): Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city. |
1759
Aug 15
Age: 33y
birth of childAriaentje Van Deusen |
| 1759 • The Guinness Brewery is founded by Arthur Guinness in St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland. |
1761
Nov 14
Age: 35y
birth of childJohn Van Deusen |
| 1761 • George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte are crowned. |
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 • At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase). |
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. |