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Jan 6th
– Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (d. 1799)
Jan 9th
– Caleb Strong, American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
Feb 18th
– Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
Apr 20th
– Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (d. 1826)
Apr 29th
– Oliver Ellsworth, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807)
– War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
– The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
– Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
– Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
– Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1799)