Mar 02 Georg F Händels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", premieres in London

Aug 27 Guillaume de Chazel, drowns in wreck of payship 'Le Chameau,' which sinks 25 km from Louisbourg; found by 3 divers in May 1966, with gold and silver coins worth $700,000

Feb 08 Catherine the Great becomes the Empress of Russia

Feb 20 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty

Apr 02 The birth of Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover, writer and philosopher

Nov 08 The New York Gazette newspaper begins weekly publication.

May 01 Spain &Austria sign trade treaty

Jan 04 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

Jan 04 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London