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Historical Events for the Year 1750

• 11th July » Halifax (former city) or Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
• 11th November » Lhasa riot of 1750 e.g Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
• 11th November » The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.

Famous Birthdays in 1750

• 1st January » Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician (d. 1801)
• 10th January » Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, Scottish-English lawyer and politician (d. 1823)
• 25th January » Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813)
• 16th March » Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
• 23rd March » Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian bassist and composer (d. 1812)
• 28th March » Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general an politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1816)
• 30th March » John Stafford Smith, English organist and composer (d. 1836)
• 17th April » François de Neufchâteau, French academic and politician, List of Interior Ministers of France or French Minister of the Interior (d. 1828)
• 2nd May » John André, English soldier and spy (d. 1780)
• 21st June » Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French sculptor (d. 1818)
• 23rd June » Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801)
• 2nd July » Thomas Spence, English author (d. 1814)
• 25th July » Henry Knox, American general and politician, 1st United States Secretary of War (d. 1806)
• 18th August » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1825)
• 24th August » Letizia Ramolino, French wife of Carlo Buonaparte (d. 1836)
• 5th September » Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
• 8th September » Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Makuuchi Yokozuna e.g Yokozuna (d. 1795)
• 18th September » Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1791)
• 26th September » Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (d. 1810)
• 7th November » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (d. 1819)
• 16th November » Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, English Judge (d. 1818)
• 20th November » Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
• 23rd December » Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)

Famous Deaths in History for 1750

• 16th January » Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
• 22nd January » Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
• 26th January » Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
• 1st February » Bakar of Georgia (b. 1699)
• 8th February » Aaron Hill (writer) named Aaron Hill, English playwright (b. 1685)
• 3rd May » John Willison, Scottish minister and author (b. 1680)
• 28th May » Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
• 15th July » Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
• 28th July » Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1685)
• 31st July » John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
• 15th September » Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (b. 1690)
• 1st December » Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)

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