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1750 - Typhus epidemic sweeps through London, killing thousands.
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1749 - The naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded and while in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill.
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1748 - The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.
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1747 - John Paul Jones, future American Naval hero and Led Zeppelin bass player (  ) is born.
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1746 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896).
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1745 - For 5 days, fire destroys buildings in Istanbul on December 28.
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1744 - The third French and Indian War, known as King George's War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
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1743 - Thomas Jefferson was born.
"Everything about this is going to feel different." (Saturn Girl, Legion of Super-Heroes #1)
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1742 - Handel's Messiah is first performed in Dublin.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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1741 - The population of China reaches 143 million.
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1740 - The Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François) was born.
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1739 - The first Bible in Estonian is published.
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1738 - The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.
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1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, dies and with him the direct male line of the Medici family goes extinct.
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1736 - Ben Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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1735 - Georg Brandt becomes the first person to discover a metal not known in ancient times, when he isolates cobalt.
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1734 - Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia, in America.
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1733 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
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1732 - Birth of George Washington on Feb. 22 (Feb. 11 Old Style Calendar).
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1731 - The birth of Mrs. George Washington, Martha Washington! Also, Benjamin Franklin starts the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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1730 - Pope Clement XII succeeds Pope Benedict XIII as the 246th pope.
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1729 - Treaty of Seville is signed between Britain, France and Spain
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1728 - I wasn't born yet. And neither were you.
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1727 - The first Amish move to America.
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1726 - Voltaire begins exile in England.
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