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Historical Events

D'Alembert Gains Influence

Nov 28 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences

Enlightenment Philosopher Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert

Famous Birthdays

  • Nov 26 Georg Forster, German writer, naturalist (A Voyage Round the World) and revolutionary, born in Nassenhuben (Mokry Dwór), Royal Prussia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1794)
Born in 1754

Famous Weddings

William Pitt the Elder

Nov 16 British PM William Pitt the Elder (46) weds Lady Hester Grenville (34) in Argyle Street, London

William Pitt the Elder

Famous Deaths

  • Nov 9 Johann Christoph Frauenholtz, Alsatian composer, dies at 70
  • Nov 12 Jacob de Wit, Dutch Rococo painter, dies at 58
  • Nov 27 Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem), dies at 87


What Happened in 1754

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