Editing 1804

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[[File:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpg|thumb|July 11: U.S. Vice President [[Aaron Burr]] kills former Treasury Secretary [[Alexander Hamilton|Hamilton]].]]
[[File:Jacques-Louis David - The Coronation of Napoleon (1805-1807).jpg|thumb|right|December 2: ''[[The Coronation of Napoleon]]'' as Emperor takes place]]
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== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Haiti]] gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic.
* [[February 4]] – The [[Sokoto Caliphate]] is founded in West Africa.
* [[February 14]] – The [[First Serbian uprising]] begins the [[Serbian Revolution]]. By 1817, the [[Principality of Serbia]] will have proclaimed self-rule from the [[Ottoman Empire]], the first nation-state in Europe to do so.
* [[February 15]] – [[New Jersey]] becomes the last of the northern United States to abolish [[History of slavery in New Jersey|slavery]].
* [[February 16]] – [[First Barbary War]]: [[Stephen Decatur]] leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate {{USS|Philadelphia|1799|6}} at [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] to deny her further use by the captors.
* [[February 18]] – [[Ohio University]] is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly.
* [[February 20]] – [[Hobart]] is established in its permanent location in [[Van Diemen's Land]] (modern-day Tasmania) as a British [[penal colony]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27194837|title=Queen to Honour David Collins in Historic Unveiling|newspaper=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|The Mercury]]|location=Hobart|date=19 February 1954|page=8, ''Royal Visit Souvenir'' supplement|access-date=2012-01-17|archive-date=2019-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107070354/http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27194837%20|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Cornwall|Cornishman]] [[Richard Trevithick]]'s newly built ''Penydarren'' [[steam locomotive]] operates on the [[Merthyr Tramroad]], between [[Penydarren]] in [[Merthyr Tydfil]] and [[Abercynon]] in [[South Wales]], following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rattenbury|first=Gordon|author2=Lewis, M. J. T.|title=Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives|year=2004|publisher=[[Railway and Canal Historical Society]]|location=Oxford|isbn=0-901461-52-0}}</ref>
* [[February 22]]–[[April 22]] – [[1804 Haiti massacre]], an ethnic cleansing with the goal of eradicating the white population on Haiti.<ref>{{cite book|first=Julia|last=Gaffield|title=Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|year=2015|pages=83–84}}</ref>
* [[March 4]]–[[March 5]] – The [[Castle Hill convict rebellion]] breaks out in [[New South Wales]], led by Irish [[convicts in Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804|url=http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/castle_hill_convict_rebellion_1804|first=Anne-Maree|last=Whitaker|work=Dictionary of Sydney|access-date=March 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304231534/https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/castle_hill_convict_rebellion_1804|archive-date=March 4, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] – In Britain:
** [[John Wedgwood (horticulturist)|John Wedgwood]] founds the [[Royal Horticultural Society]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
** [[Thomas Charles]] is instrumental in founding the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/|title=Our timeline|publisher=Bible Society|access-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228224810/http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/|archive-date=December 28, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 10]] – [[Louisiana Purchase]], [[Three Flags Day]]: In [[St. Louis]], a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of [[Louisiana Territory]] from France to the United States.
* [[March 17]] – [[Friedrich Schiller]]'s play ''[[William Tell (play)|Wilhelm Tell]]'' is first performed at [[Weimar]], under the direction of [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]].
* [[March 21]] – The [[Napoleonic Code]] is adopted as French [[Civil law (legal system)|civil law]].

=== April–June ===
* [[April 2]] – Forty [[Armed merchantman|merchantmen]] are wrecked when a convoy led by British frigate {{HMS|Apollo|1799|6}} runs aground off Portugal with considerable loss of life.
* [[April 4]] – [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] sets sail on ''The Speedwell'' for the Mediterranean. In [[Malta]], he obtains employment as a public official.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Barry|last1=Hough|first2=Howard|last2=Davis|first3=Lydia|last3=Davis|title=Coleridge's Laws: A Study of Coleridge in Malta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnR7GXkZz3oC&pg=PA28|year=2010|publisher=Open Book Publishers|isbn=978-1-906924-12-6|pages=28–}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] – The High Possil meteorite, the first recorded [[meteorite]] to fall in Scotland in modern times, falls at [[High Possil]].
* [[April 26]] – [[Henry Addington]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[May 10]] – [[William Pitt the Younger]] begins his second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* [[May 14]] – The [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] departs from [[Camp Dubois]] and begins its historic journey by traveling up the [[Missouri River]].
* [[May 18]] – [[Napoleon]] Bonaparte is proclaimed [[Emperor of the French]] by the [[French Senate]].
* [[May 21]] – [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] a {{convert|118|acre|km2|adj=on}} cemetery in Paris, France, is opened.
* [[June 9]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's ''Symphony No. 3 in E–flat'']] is premiered in Vienna.
* [[June 15]] – The [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] is ratified by [[New Hampshire]], and arguably becomes effective (subsequently vetoed by the [[Governor of New Hampshire]]).
* [[June 21]] – [[Smithson Tennant]] announces the discovery of the elements [[iridium]] and [[osmium]]; three days later, [[William Hyde Wollaston]] reveals to the Royal Society that he is the formerly anonymous discoverer of [[palladium]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Eighth Group of the Periodic System and Some of its Problems|first=James Lewis|last=Howe|journal=The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science|date=1900-07-20|page=31}}</ref>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 11]] – [[Aaron Burr]], Vice President of the United States, shoots former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury [[Alexander Hamilton]] during a [[Burr–Hamilton duel|duel]]; Hamilton dies the next day.
* [[July 27]] – The [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]], which reforms the way that candidates for [[President of the United States|President]] and [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] are chosen, is ratified by [[Tennessee]], removing doubt surrounding adoption.
* [[August 11]] – In reaction to Napoleon being proclaimed emperor of France, [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis II]] assumes the title of a hereditary emperor of Austria (as Francis I) in addition to his title as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This latter title will become obsolete two years later when the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine instigated by Napoleon signals the end of the Holy Roman Empire.
* [[August 20]] – [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]]: The ''[[Corps of Discovery]]'', whose purpose is to explore the [[Louisiana Purchase]], suffers its only death when Sergeant [[Charles Floyd (explorer)|Charles Floyd]] dies, apparently from acute [[appendicitis]].
* [[September 1]] – German astronomer [[Karl Ludwig Harding|K. L. Harding]] discovers the [[asteroid]] [[3 Juno|Juno]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 5]] – [[Action of 5 October 1804]]: War between Spain and the United Kingdom is triggered by the battle between four British warships (''Indefatigable'', ''Medusa'', ''Amphion'' and ''Lively'') and four Spanish frigates (''Medee'', ''Fama'', ''Clara'' and ''Mercedes''), all carrying treasure and merchandise.  Captain Graham Moore of ''Indefatigable'' informs Spanish Admiral Jose Bustamante of his orders to detain the treasure-laden ships and, "not receiving a satisfactory answer, an Action commenced";<ref>Nicholas Harris Nicolas, ''The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson'' (Cambridge University Press, 1846; reprinted 2011) p266</ref> ''La Mercedes'' is sunk and the other three ships surrender.
* [[October 8]] – [[Jean-Jacques Dessalines]] holds his coronation as Jean-Jacques I, Emperor of [[Haiti]].<ref>John Relly Beard, ''The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti'' (James Redpath Co., 1863, reprinted by University of North Carolina Press, 2012) p271</ref>
* [[November 3]] – The [[Treaty of St. Louis (1804)|Treaty of St. Louis]] is signed by [[Quashquame]] and [[William Henry Harrison]]; controversy surrounding the treaty eventually causes the [[Sauk people]] to ally with the British during the [[War of 1812]], and is the main cause of the [[Black Hawk War]] of 1832.
* [[November 20]] – [[Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman]], starts to rule.
* [[November 30]] – The [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]-controlled [[United States Senate]] begins [[Impeachment of Samuel Chase|an impeachment trial]] against [[Federalist Party|Federalist]]-partisan [[Supreme Court of the United States]] Justice [[Samuel Chase]], on charges of political bias (he is acquitted by the [[United States Senate]] of all charges on March 1, 1805).
* [[December 2]] – [[Coronation of Napoleon I]]: At the cathedral of [[Notre Dame de Paris]], [[Napoleon]] crowns himself as the first [[Emperor of the French]] in a thousand years. Witnessing this, [[Simón Bolívar]] dedicates himself to liberating [[Venezuela]] from Spanish rule.
* [[December 3]] – [[Thomas Jefferson]] defeats [[Charles C. Pinckney]] in the [[1804 United States presidential election|United States presidential election]].
* [[December 12]] – Spain declares war on the United Kingdom.

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Nguyễn dynasty]] emperor [[Gia Long]] changes his country's official name from [[Đại Việt]] to [[Việt Nam]].
* [[Morphine]] is first isolated from the [[opium poppy]] by the German pharmacist, [[Friedrich Sertürner]].
* [[Matthew Flinders]] recommends that [[New Holland (Australia)|New Holland]] be renamed ''Australia'' (from the Latin ''australis'' meaning "of the south").
* ''Shimizu-gumi'', predecessor of [[Shimizu Corporation]], a major construction company in Japan, is founded in [[Kanda, Tokyo|Kanda]] region, [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]] (modern-day Tokyo).<ref>{{cite book |first=Hiroshi|last=Shimizu|title=Japanese Firms in Contemporary Singapore|year=2008|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=978-9971-69-384-8|page=154}}</ref>
* [[World population]] reaches 1&nbsp;billion people.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duncan |first1=R L |last2=Kizer |first2=N |last3=Barry |first3=E L |last4=Friedman |first4=P A |last5=Hruska |first5=K A |title=Antisense oligodeoxynucleotide inhibition of a swelling-activated cation channel in osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cells. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=5 March 1996 |volume=93 |issue=5 |pages=1864–1869 |doi=10.1073/pnas.93.5.1864 |pmid=8700850 |pmc=39873 |bibcode=1996PNAS...93.1864D |doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Eliza Roxcy Snow photograph.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Eliza R. Snow]]]]
[[File:Johan Ludvig Runeberg 1893.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[J. L. Runeberg]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[James Fannin]], Texas revolutionary (d. [[1836]])
* [[January 9]]
** [[Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines]], French general (d. [[1877]])
** [[Sydney Dacres]], British admiral (d. [[1884]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Élie Frédéric Forey]], French general, [[Marshal of France]] (d. [[1872]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Eugène Sue]], French novelist (d. [[1857]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Eliza Roxcy Snow]], American poet (d. [[1887]])
* [[February 5]] – [[J. L. Runeberg]], Finnish national poet (d. [[1877]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Runeberg: a patriotic 19th-century rapper|date=February 5, 2016|url=https://finland.fi/arts-culture/runeberg-a-patriotic-rapper-of-the-19th-century/|publisher=[[Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland)]]|access-date=December 9, 2020|archive-date=November 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124153729/https://finland.fi/arts-culture/runeberg-a-patriotic-rapper-of-the-19th-century/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] – [[John Deere (inventor)|John Deere]], American industrialist (d. [[1886]])
* [[February 13]]  – [[Claude-Étienne Minié]], French army officer and weapon inventor (d. [[1879]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Carl von Rokitansky]], Czech physician and pathologist (d. [[1878]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Alvan Clark]], American telescope manufacturer (d. [[1887]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Johann Strauss I|Johann Strauss Senior]], Austrian composer (d. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Randel |first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=30 October 2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-25572-2 |page=866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXILEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT866 |language=en |access-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=March 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164802/https://books.google.com/books?id=HXILEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT866 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – [[Jim Bridger]], American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
* [[March 20]] – [[Neal Dow]], mayor of Portland, Maine and Father of Prohibition (d. [[1897]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Lucien Baudens]], French military surgeon (d. [[1857]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Andrew Nicholl]], Northern Irish painter (d. [[1886]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Robert Davidson (inventor)|Robert Davidson]], Scottish locomotive pioneer (d. [[1894]]) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_TcDwAAQBAJ&dq=robert+davidson+april+18+1894&pg=PA30 | title=Short History of Railroads: The Story of the Evolution of the Train | last1=Wonning | first1=Paul R. | date=April 15, 2020 }}</ref> 
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Chō Kōran]], Japanese poet, painter (d. [[1879]]) 
* [[April 26]] – [[Charles Goodyear (politician)|Charles Goodyear]], American politician (d. 1876)
* [[May 4]] – [[Margaretta Riley]], British botanic (d. [[1899]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad]], Swedo-Finnish treasurer of [[Tavastia (historical province)|Tavastia province]], manor host, and paternal grandfather of President [[P. E. Svinhufvud]] (d. [[1866]])<ref>[http://www.kolumbus.fi/hmhalonen/Taulut/wc02/wc02_440.htm Taulut: Peter Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad & Ulrica Charlotta von Kraemer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129141950/http://www.kolumbus.fi/hmhalonen/Taulut/wc02/wc02_440.htm |date=November 29, 2021 }} (in Finnish)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://suomenpresidentit.fi/svinhufvud/|title=Svinhufvud|website=Suomen presidentit|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=June 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618084450/https://suomenpresidentit.fi/svinhufvud/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] – [[Elizabeth Peabody]], Transcendental activist, educator (d. [[1894]])
* [[June 1]]
** [[Mikhail Glinka]], Russian composer (d. [[1857]])
** [[George Sand]], French writer (d. [[1876]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Willard Richards]], American religious leader (d. [[1854]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Richard Owen original.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Richard Owen]]]]
[[File:Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Ludwig Feuerbach]]]]
[[File:Harrison jane.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Jane Irwin Harrison]]]]
[[File:Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce - alternate crop.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Franklin Pierce]]]]
[[File:Carl Jacobi.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]]]]
[[File:Benjamin Disraeli by Cornelius Jabez Hughes, 1878.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Benjamin Disraeli]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[George Sand]], French novelist (d. [[1876]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], American writer (d. [[1864]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Jerónimo Carrión]], 8th President of Ecuador (d. [[1873]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Ludwig von Benedek]], Austrian general (d. [[1881]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Richard Owen]], English anatomist, paleontologist, and zoologist (d. [[1892]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Jane Irwin Harrison]], ''de facto'' [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1846]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Ludwig Feuerbach]], German philosopher (d. [[1872]])
* [[September 5]] – [[William Alexander Graham]], [[United States Senator]] from [[North Carolina]] (1840–1843), [[Confederate States Senate|Confederate States Senator]] (1864–1865) (d. [[1875]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Eduard Mörike]], German poet (d. [[1875]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Mercedes Marín del Solar]], international Chilean poet and reform educator (d. [[1866]])
* [[September 14]] 
** [[Louis Désiré Maigret]], Roman Catholic bishop of [[Honolulu]] (d. [[1882]])
** [[John Gould]], English ornithologist (d. [[1881]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Alpheus Felch]], American governor and senator from Michigan (d. [[1896]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Mongkut]], Rama IV, [[King of Thailand|King of Siam]] (d. [[1868]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Wilhelm Eduard Weber]], German physicist  (d. [[1891]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora]], Italian general and statesman (d. [[1878]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Franklin Pierce]], 14th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1869]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Noah Haynes Swayne]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1884]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]], German mathematician (d. [[1851]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Joseph Howe]], Canadian politician (d. [[1873]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Viktor Bunyakovsky]], Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (d. [[1889]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Benjamin Disraeli]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (1868; 1874–1880) (d. [[1881]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve]], French literary critic (d. [[1869]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Isaac Aaron]], English-born physician, owner of the ''[[Australian Medical Journal]]'' and secretary of the [[Australian Medical Association]] (d. 1877)
* [[James Fannin]], colonel in Army of the Republic of Texas and slave trader (executed 1836)
* [[Hortense Globensky-Prévost]], Canadian heroine (d. 1873)
* [[Anne Hill (actress)|Anne Hill]], British-Canadian dancer and actor (d. 1896)
* [[Chō Kōran]], Japanese poet and painter (d. 1879)
* [[Eugénie Luce]], French educator (d. 1882)<ref name="WDL">{{cite web|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/8800/|title=Luce Ben Aben School of Arab Embroidery I, Algiers, Algeria|website=[[World Digital Library]]|year=1899|access-date=September 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928193801/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/8800/|archive-date=September 28, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[James Mackay (New Zealand politician, born 1804)|James Mackay]], Scottish-born New Zealand politician (d. 1875)

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Charlotte Ramsay Lennox.gif|110px|thumb|right|[[Charlotte Lennox]]]]
[[File:Priestley.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joseph Priestley]]]]
[[File:Immanuel Kant portrait c1790.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Immanuel Kant]]]]
* [[January 4]] – [[Charlotte Lennox|Charlotte Ramsey Lennox]], British author and poet (b. 1727)
* [[January 15]] – [[Dru Drury]], English entomologist (b. 1725)
* [[February 3]] – [[Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet]], English politician (b. 1719)
* [[February 6]] – [[Joseph Priestley]], British chemist (b. 1733)
* [[February 7]] – [[William Bingham]], American Continental congressman, senator for Pennsylvania (b. 1752)
* [[February 12]] – [[Immanuel Kant]], German philosopher (b. 1724)
* [[March 3]] – [[Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo]], painter (b. 1727)
* [[March 13]] – [[Damodar Pande]], Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1752)
* [[March 16]] – [[Henrik Gabriel Porthan]] Finnish writer and historian (b. 1739)
* [[March 21]] – [[Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien]] (executed) (b. 1772)
* [[March 30]] – [[Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie]], Marshal of France (b. 1718)
* [[April 9]] – [[Jacques Necker]], French statesman (b. 1732)
* [[April 11]] – [[Miklós Küzmics]], [[Hungarian Slovenes]] writer, Catholic priest (b. 1737)
* [[April 15]] – [[Jean-Charles Pichegru]], French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
* [[May 25]] – [[Johann Joachim Spalding]], German theologian (b. 1714)

=== July–December ===
* [[July 12]] – [[Alexander Hamilton]], American statesman and Founding Father (killed in a duel) (b. 1755 or 1757)
* [[September 4]] – [[Richard Somers]], American naval officer (killed in battle) (b. 1778)
* [[September 20]] – [[Pierre Méchain]], French astronomer (b. 1744)
* [[October 2]] – [[Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot]], French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
* [[October 8]] – [[Thomas Cochran (judge)]], Canadian judge (b. 1777)
* [[October 29]] – [[Sarah Crosby]], the first female [[Methodism|Methodist]] preacher (b. 1729)
* [[November 1]] – [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]], German naturalist (b. 1748)
* [[November 5]] – [[Maria Anna Adamberger]], Austrian actress (b. 1752)
* [[November 18]] – [[Philip Schuyler]], general in the [[American Revolution]], a [[United States senator]] from New York, father of [[Angelica Schuyler Church]] and [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]], father-in-law of [[Alexander Hamilton]] (b. 1733)
* [[November 23]] – [[Richard Graves]], English writer (b. 1715)
* [[December 18]] – [[Jacob ben Wolf Kranz]], Lithuanian maggid (b. c. 1740)
* [[December 25]] – [[Contarina Barbarigo]], famous Venetian noble.

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