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John Kay, working in the Lancashire woollen industry, patents the flying shuttle to speed up weaving
Benjamin Franklin establishes the most successful of America's almanacs, publishing it annually until 1758
Pope adds a portico to Pope's Villa to the design of William Kent.
Prince Frederick spends nearly £1000 on trees and shrubs, acquired from the local nurseryman Richard Butt for his estate in Kew
A revivalist movement in America, led by Jonathan Edwards, becomes known as the Great Awakening
The Asam brothers build at their own expense the tiny and brilliant baroque church of St John Nepomuk, attached to their own house in Munich
Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus publishes a 'system of nature', capable of classifying all living things
John Peter Zenger, editor of the Weekly Journal, is acquitted of libelling the governor of New York on the grounds that what he published was true
Swedish chemist Georg Brandt discovers a new metallic element, which he names cobalt
A Palladian villa designed by Roger Morris is built in the eastern quarter of Whitton Park, and this new house becomes known as Whitton Place.
In his Seven Bridges of K&oulm;nigsberg the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler lays the basis for the subsequently important mathematical discipline of topology
The leader of a gang of tribal brigands seizes the Persian throne and takes the name Nadir Shah
Florence loses her independence when the last Medici duke of Tuscany dies
Prince Frederick marries Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and together they develop an increasing interest in botany and their gardens in Kew
John Christopher builds the ‘Star and Garter’ tavern at the top of Petersham Common
In the Treaty of Vienna, France accepts the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VI – the last of the European powers to do so
Britain declares war on Spain, partly in a mood of indignation over Captain Jenkins' ear
The Persian ruler Nadir Shah enters Delhi and removes much of the accumulated treasure of the Mughal empire
David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science
English highwayman Dick Turpin is convicted of stealing two horses, in Yorkshire, and is hanged
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador become the Spanish viceroyalty of New Granada, with Bogota as the capital
Frederick II, inheriting the throne in Prussia, establishes a cultured and musical court
A charismatic leader, Baal Shem Tov, develops Hasidism in Poland as an influential revivalist movement within Judaism
Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition
Jack Broughton, champion of England, opens an academy to teach 'the mystery of boxing, that wholly British art'
