Famous Birthdays
Famous Weddings
- Dec 16 Chemist Antione Lavoisier (28) marries Marie-Anne Paulze (13), the couple go on to make major discoveries in chemistry together
Famous Deaths
- Dec 6 Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
- Dec 23 Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal), dies at 70,
- Dec 26 Claude Adrien Helvétius, French controversial philosopher (On the Mind), dies at 56
- Dec 27 Henri Pitot, Italian-French engineer, dies at 76
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