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| Articles of Confederarion Washington, George |  |
| Attends a Federal Convention producing the Articles of Confederation
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| Birth Louis I |  |
| Bavaria Birth of Louis I, son of Maximilian I
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| Birth Cartwright, John |  |
| Birth of John Cartwright
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| Bonn University Maximilian Franz | |
| Bonn Founds the University of Bonn
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| Captain William IV | |
| Appointed Captain
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| Commander Cornwallis, Charles | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, India
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| Composition Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus |  |
| Vienna Composes, "The Marriage of Figaro"
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| Composition Da Ponte, Lorenzo |  |
| Writes the librettos for Mozart's, "La Nozze di Figarro"
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| Constitution Washington, George | |
| Attends a Federal Convention producing the Articles of Confederation
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| Convention Federal Washington, George | |
| Attends a Federal Convention producing the Articles of Confederation
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| Death Frederick II the Great | |
| 17th Aug Sans Souci Death of Frederick II the Great, succeeded by his nephew Friedrich Wilhelm II
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| Diplomacy Pitt the Younger, William | |
| Negotiates a favourable commercial Treaty with France
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| Education Wellesley, Arthur | |
| Angers Enters School of Equitation, Angers, Anjou
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| Election Grey, Charles | |
| Northumberland 1st elected to Parliament, MP for Northumberland for the next 20 yrs
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| First Consul Shaw, Samuel | |
| Washington Appointed first Consul for the USAforeign service, becomes Consul to China
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| Governor Cornwallis, Charles | |
| Appointed Governor General of India, 1st term
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| Invention Musket Nock, Henry | |
| London Invents the breech-loading musket
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| Invention Threshing Meikle, Andrew | |
| London Invents the first successful threshing machine
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| Lieutenant Napoleon I |  |
| 15th Sep Lyons Joins his regiment in Lyons
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| Reform Calonne, Charles Alexandre de | |
| 20th Aug Paris Presents reform proposals to Louis XVI
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| Slavery Wilberforce, William | |
| Wilberforce receives a letter from Captain Sir Charles Middleton, MP, and father-in-law of his old friend Gerard Edwards, which was to ignite again his old interest in the subject of the slave trade
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| Succession Frederick II | |
| Berlin Succeeds as King of Prussia, nephew of Frederick II the Great
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| Succession Frederick William II | |
| Berlin Succeeds as King of Prussia
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