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Gorgonzola
Wed Nov 15 2000 at 4:22:28
Born in 1748:
English
philosopher
and
jurist
Jeremy Bentham
.
Martha Wayles Skelton
, future wife of
Thomas Jefferson
.
French
revolutionary
figure
Olympe de Gouges
.
French chemist
Claude Berthollet
,
best known for being wrong
.
Patriotic French
painter
Jacques-Louis David
.
Scottish
poet
John Logan
.
The future King
Carlos IV
of
Spain
.
German
composer
Christian Gottlob Neefe
, teacher of
Beethoven
.
Scottish
mathematician
and
geologist
John Playfair
.
English
sculptor
Anne Seymour Damer
.
Dutch
painter
Dirk Langendijk
, fond of military scenes.
Died in 1748:
Swiss
mathematician
Johann Bernoulli
.
English
poet
James Thomson
(writer of "
Rule Britannia
").
English
Hymn
writer
Isaac Watts
.
German composer
David Kellner
.
English military engineer
David Wade
, who built the road system that defeated the
Jacobite
s.
Mughal
emperor
Mohammed Shah
.
Events of 1748:
The
Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle
ends the
War of the Austrian Succession
, known in America as
King George's War
, or
The War of Jenkins' Ear
:
King
Frederick
of
Prussia
, whose invasion of
Silesia
started the war, gets to keep it.
Empress
Maria Theresa
of
Austria
, whose accesion was the pretext for the invasion, gets to keep her throne.
King
George
of
Great Britain
doesn't keep
Cape Breton Island
, instead returning it to
France
in exchange for
Madras
. The British South Sea Company gets the trade rights with Spanish America it instigated the war for, especially the right to transport
slaves
there.
Spain
gets the Italian duchies of
Parma
,
Piacenza
, and
Guastalla
.
Charles de Secondat, Baron de
Montesquieu
publishes his major work
The Spirit of the Laws
.
David Hume
publishes
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
.
Izumo Takeda
writes his puppet play
Kanadehon Chushingura
, aka
The Forty-Seven Ronin
.
An Italian peasant finds traces of ancient buildings beneath his vineyard. These turn out to be the Roman city of
Pompeii
, buried in
79 AD
.
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