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1741
Oct 27
1741 • Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale, Centigrade the predecessor of the Celsius scale. |
1766
Jul 29
Age: 24y
marriageWoodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Married by the Reverend Abiel Leonard 1 Source ⇓ |
1766 • Meermin slave mutiny: captive Malagasy people seize a Dutch East India Company slave ship in the Indian Ocean. |
1769
Nov 26
Age: 28y
1769 • Richard Arkwright invents the spinning frame. |
1778
Feb 6
Age: 36y
birth of childHenry Tolman Franklin Woodstock, Connecticut, USA ⇓ Henry Tolman had five older sisters, Mary, Lotheta, Dolly, Electa, and Dorothy, and a younger brother John. His oldest sister Mary was born in Pomfret, Connecticut. 2 Sources ⇓ |
1778 • Phillips Academy, the most prestigious secondary boarding school in the United States, is founded by Samuel Phillips Jr. |
1779
Age: 37y
militaryServed in the 4th Connecticut Regiment in the Revolutionary War, under the US Continental Army. 2 Sources ⇓ |
1779 • Industrial Revolution in England: |
1783
Nov 21
Age: 42y
1783 • The city of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean peninsula of the Russian Empire. |