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1784
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by
Gorgonzola
Fri Nov 03 2000 at 3:52:19
Born in 1784:
Zachary Taylor
, 12th
President of the United States
.
German
mathematician
and
astronomer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
, famous for
Bessel Curve
s as well as deducing that an
as-yet-undiscovered planet
was perturbing the orbit of
Uranus
.
Scottish
poet
Allan Cunningham
.
Andrew T. Judson
, presiding judge in the
Amistad
case.
Elizabeth Clovis Lange
, founder of the
Oblate Sisters of Providence
.
Died in 1784:
English writer and
lexicographer
Dr.
Samuel Johnson
.
Sister
Ann Lee
, founder of the
Shaker
sect.
American
poet
Phyllis Wheatley
.
French
encyclopedist
Denis Diderot
.
German
composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
.
Italian composer
Andrea Bernasconi
.
Spanish missionary
Father
Junipero Serra
.
Events of 1784:
]Immanuel Kant] publishes
An Answer to the Question:
What is Enlightenment?
"
The new
United States
government enacts a
treaty with the six
Iroqouis
nations
, rewarding the
Oneida
and
Tuscarora
who had fought on their side, and circumscribing the lands of the
Seneca
,
Mohawk
,
Onandaga
, and
Cayuga
who had fought on the side of the British.
the British
Parliament
under
William Pitt
the Younger passes the
India Act
.
John Goodricke
discovers that the star
Delta Cepheid
varies its brightness. It and later stars like it are now called
Cepheid variables
.
Charles Messier
publishes his famous
catalog
of 103 nebulous objects and star clusters.
The Spanish government in
Louisiana
enters into a treaty with the
Creek
s.
Choctaw
s,
Chickasaw
s, and other Southern Indian tribes. The same year, they close the
Mississippi River
to travel because of encroaching American settlment.
1783
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1783
Ann Lee
Samuel Johnson
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
Sapere Aude
Charles Pinckney
Sybil Ludington
Seneca
Jacques Louis David
Saint Barth
Zachary Taylor
Johnson v. M'Intosh
Junipero Serra
Anthropocene
hat tax
Jupiter Wise
petite
Cayuga
Phillis Wheatley
Nootka Sound
César François Cassini de Thury
My quick GPL'd script to adjust some PATH environment variables
North West Company
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