May 01 Spain &Austria sign trade treaty

Jan 04 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

Jan 04 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London

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.

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

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