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1715
Nov 10
| 1715 • 1715 Treasure Fleet: A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under General Don Juan Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida (some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks). |
1738
Nov 10
Age: 23y
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marriageAnna Catherina Lauck Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ Host Tulpenhocken Church 3 Sources ⇓ |
| 1738 • Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the earth is an oblate spheroid slightly flattened at the poles. |
1747
Age: 31y
birth of childJacob Winger Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1747 • James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. |
1796
Dec 16
Age: 81y
| 1796 • Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. |