Jan 12 Tsarina Elisabeth establishes first Russian University

Feb 13 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java

Nov 02 Marie Antoinette, the wife of French King Louis XVI is born in Vienna

Nov 01 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000

Nov 18 Worst quake Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report

Nov 02 The birth of Marie Antoinette, Former Queen of France

Sep 18 Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens

Jun 16 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel the Acadians

Jul 09 British Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War

Mar 01 In Quebec city Quebec Jean-Armand Dieskau is appointed commander of the French regular troops in Canada

Mar 17 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief

Mar 12 First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine