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Events

February 23 - First performance of Handel's Orlando, in London
June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. [link]
December 7 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened
Genoa regains Corsica
139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
Cobalt discovered

Births

January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
February 22 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
March 31 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806)
June 21 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1795)
September 30 - Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804)
October 6 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
November 13 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
December 6 - Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818)
December 23 - Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792)
Abbas III, Shah of Persia

Deaths

January 12 - John Horsley, British archaeologist
February 13 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
February 17 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
February 22 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
May 20 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
July 16 - Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas
September 24 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
October 31 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)

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