Events

• February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
• May 29 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec.
• July 30 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.

Births

• May 4 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
• March 13 - Joseph Priestley, scientist, minister (+ 1804)

Deaths

• February 1 - King August II of Poland
• May 18 - Georg Böhm, famous organist