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1728
Oct 29
| 1728 • August 14 – Vitus Bering sails northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and round Cape Dezhnev. |
1754
Mar 7
Age: 25y
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marriageSusannah Chapman Lyme, New London, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1754 • Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. |
1770
Aug 11
Age: 41y
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birth of childAnna Tillotson Lyme, New London, Connecticut, USA ⇓ 4 Sources ⇓ |
| 1770 • Joseph Priestley, British chemist, recommends the use of a rubber to remove pencil marks. |
1809
Age: 80y
| 1809 • Gustav Koerner: The revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, and statesman of Illinois and Germany and Colonel of the U.S. Army was born in Frankfurt |