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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
April 10
– Austrian army attack troops of
Frederick the Great
at Mollwitz
December 19
–
Vitus Bering
dies in his expedition east of
Siberia
December 25
–
Anders Celsius
develops his own
thermometer
scale
Celsius
William Browning invents
mineral water
Elizabeth of Russia
became czarina.
Ongoing events
War of the Austrian Succession
(
1740
-
1748
)
Births
January 14
-
Benedict Arnold
, General in United States'
Revolutionary War
, turncoat (d.
1801
)
March 13
-
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
March 25
-
Jean Antoine Houdon
, sculptor
September 22
-
Peter Simon Pallas
,
German
zoologist (d.
1811
)
October 18
-
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
, French general and author (d.
1803
)
William Withering
,
British
doctor
Ali Pasha
,
Albanian
ruler under the
Ottoman Empire
Emperor Momozono of Japan
Deaths
July 28
-
Antonio Vivaldi
, Italian composer (b.
1678
)
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