Historical Events
Colley Cibber
Dec 3 Colley Cibber is appointed British Poet Laureate under King George II
Famous Birthdays
- Dec 8 Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-English physiologist (discovering photosynthesis) and personal physician of Maria Theresa, born in Breda, Staats-Brabant, Dutch Republic (d. 1799)
- Dec 14 Capel Bond, English composer, born in Gloucester (d. 1790)
- Dec 25 Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)