1736
1736 • Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops. |
1757
Age: 21y
1757 • Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria in English and French, making the ancient city of Baalbek in Syria known to the West. |
1760
Nov 1
Age: 24y
birth of childSamuel Boggs Miller Sr. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
1760 • Dr. James Fordyce's two-volume compendium, Sermons for Young Women, is published. |
1801
Dec 5
Age: 66y
marriageJohn Ritchey Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
1801 • William Pitt the Younger resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
1816
Age: 80y
1816
burialRockbridge County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Buried at the Miller-Irwin Cemetery, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA 1 Source ⇓ |
1816 • In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches. |