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What Happened in April 1761

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Famous Birthdays

  • Apr 5 Sybil Ludington, American revolutionary heroine (rode to alert militia), born in Kent, New York (d. 1839)
  • Apr 20 Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, German composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1805)
Born in 1761

Famous Deaths

  • Apr 4 Théodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler, dies at 38
  • Apr 9 William Law, British minister and theologian (b. 1686)
  • Apr 15 Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician, dies at 78
  • Apr 15 William Oldys, English antiquarian & bibliographer, dies at b64
  • Apr 17 Thomas Bayes, English mathematician and statistician (Bayes' theorem), dies at about 59


What Happened in 1761

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