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Year of the Fire sheep丁未( at the beginning of the year Fire Horse丙午)

Syria: 2098/99 ( the year in October )

• 2.1 First Quarter
• 2.2 Second Quarter
• 2.3 Third Quarter
• 2.4 Fourth Quarter
• 2.5 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Politics and World Affairs

France

• January 29: France's King Louis XVI. relies on the initiative of the competent Charles Alexandre de Calonne of Finance an assembly of notables to move the privileged orders to surrender their tax-exempt status. For the serious government budget should be arranged.
• February 22: The French Notables occurs for the first time since 1626 back together (until 25 May)
• November 29: The French King Louis XVI. adopt an edict of toleration in favor of the Huguenots.

• Adel revolution and economic crisis in France.

More Events in Europe

• Prussian invasion of Holland
• Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin allegedly shows Empress Catherine II of Russia, the " Potemkin villages " with a trip to the newly conquered territories in the Crimea.
• Hamburg exceeds the 100,000 population threshold and is thus a major city.

America

• MAY 25: The Philadelphia Convention shall meet to discuss improvements to the Articles of Confederation. From the work of the delegates arises at the end of the Constitution of the United States.

Economy

Science and Technology

• Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni describes the eponymous sound figures
• Adoption of the first patent law in France ( see also Patent )
• The Pittsburgh Academy, forerunner of the University of Pittsburgh, is founded

Culture

Fine Arts

• The Irish painter Robert Barker receives a patent for the production of panoramic images.

Literature and theater

• August 29: Premiere of Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos - Infant of Spain in the "republican city of Hamburg "
• July: Joachim Heinrich Campe is a translation of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education in its general revision of the whole school and education system. Ninth part. out.
• October 14: the Freihaustheater opens Second Viennese suburban theaters. Founder and first director is Christian Rossbach.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published Iphigenia in Tauris.

Music and music theater

Others

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is set in Hanover as the first Civil Germany a monument.

Disasters

• August 26: A major fire destroyed the city Neuruppin.

Sports

• In London, the Marylebone Cricket Club is founded.

Born

First Quarter

• January 01: Domenico Quaglio, German architectural painter of the German Romantic († 1837)
• JANUARY 13: Julius Constantijn Rijk, Dutch governor of Suriname ( † 1854)
• January 24: Christian Ludwig Brehm, German pastor and ornithologist († 1864)
• JANUARY 28: Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist († 1854)
• JANUARY 30: Johann Ulrich Himbsel, German Baurat († 1860)

• February 01: Johann Joachim guard, German choral conductor and composer († 1853)
• FEBRUARY 13: Johann Caspar von Orelli, Swiss philologist († 1849)
• FEBRUARY 23: José Lúcio Travassos Valdez, Portuguese statesman and politician ( † 1862)
• FEBRUARY 26: André Coindre, French priest and founder of the Order († 1826)
• February 28: Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg, Bavarian statesman († 1853)

• March 06: Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician and physicist († 1826)
• March 10: William Etty, British painter († 1849)
• MARCH 27: Heinrich Adam, German etcher and landscape painter († 1862)
• MARCH 28: Wenzel Scholz, Austrian actor († 1857)
• March 30: Georg Christian Kessler, German winemaker and founder of the first German sparkling wine († 1842)

Second Quarter

• April 03: Franz Reisinger, German surgeon and university lecturer († 1855)
• 07 April: Samuel McKean, American politician († 1841)
• 09 April: Johann Gottlob von Quandt, German author and member of the Academic Council († 1859)
• April 12: Joseph Ignaz Ritter, Silesian Catholic theologian and church historian († 1857)
• April 25: Jakob Friedrich Binder, 1821-1853 Mayor of the City of Nuremberg
• April 26: Ludwig Uhland, German jurist, poet and politician († 1862)

• May 07: Thomas Buck Reed, American politician († 1829)
• MAY 11: Alfred I. zu Windisch -Graetz, Austrian field marshal († 1862)
• MAY 21: John Page, American politician († 1865)
• May 27: Jean Elias Benjamin Valz, French astronomer († 1867)

• 02 June: Nils Gabriel Sefström, Swedish chemist and mineralogist († 1845)
• June 05: James de Carle Sowerby, English naturalist and artist († 1871)
• 09 June: Frédéric Cailliaud, French explorer († 1869)
• 09 June: Samuel L. Southard, American politician († 1842)
• June 17: William Daniel Conybeare, English geologist and paleontologist († 1857)
• JUNE 27: Thomas Say, American Entomologist († 1834)

Third Quarter

• 07 July: César Malan, Swiss teacher and reformed pastor († 1864)
• July 17: Friedrich Krupp, German industrialist († 1826)
• JULY 29: Leopold von Sedlnitzky, Austrian Prince-Bishop of Breslau ( † 1871)
• JULY 31: Christian Ferdinand Siemens, German farmer and father of the founder of the World group Siemens AG ( † 1840)

• August 05: Carl Mittermaierstrasse, German jurist and politician ( † 1867)
• August 11: Johann Gottlieb Nörrenberg, German physicist († 1862)
• August 12: Stephen Royce, American politician († 1868)
• August 15: Alexander Alyabyev, Russian composer († 1851)
• August 20: John M. Niles, American politician († 1856)
• August 22: Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Stockmar, German physician and statesman († 1863)
• August 24: James Weddell, British sailors and whalers († 1834)
• AUGUST 28: Wilhelm Harnisch, German theologian and educator († 1864)
• AUGUST 31: Louis Antoine Ponchard, French opera singer († 1866)

• September 04: Ninomiya Sontoku, Japanese agrarian reformers († 1856)
• September 06: Emilie de Rodat, French saint († 1852)
• September 15: Guillaume -Henri Dufour, a Swiss general, politician, cartographer and engineer († 1875)
• September 17: William H. Roane, American politician († 1845)
• SEPTEMBER 21: Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, German theologian († 1868)

Fourth Quarter

• October 02: Better Albrecht of Thalfingen, Bavarian general and War Minister († 1839)
• 04 October: François Guizot, French politician and writer († 1874)
• OCTOBER 12: Carl Barth, German draftsman and engraver († 1853)
• OCTOBER 12: Ferdinand of Ritgen, German professor of medicine, gynecologist († 1867)
• October 30: Louis -Jacques- Maurice de Bonald, French Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon ( † 1870)

• November 05: John Richardson, Scottish natural historian, scholar and explorer († 1865)
• 06 November: Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian philologist († 1864)
• November 07: Carl Carl, Austrian actor and theater director († 1854)
• 09 November: Johann Natterer, Austrian naturalist, zoologist and collector ( † 1843)
• November 11: Mikhail Wielhorski, Russian composer, cellist and patron († 1856)
• November 13: Theodore Enslin, German bookseller, bibliographer and publisher († 1851)
• NOVEMBER 17: Karl Ernst Wilhelm von Canitz and Dallwitz, Prussian general and statesman († 1850)

• December 04: Johan Fredrik Berwald, Swedish composer († 1861)
• December 10: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American founder of the Education for deaf children († 1851)
• December 11: Georg Carabelli, Austro- Hungarian dentist († 1842)
• December 18: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech physiologist († 1869)
• December 23: Antonio Barezzi, Italian businessman and philanthropist († 1867)

• December 30: Otto von Kotzebue, Baltic German explorer and officer of the Russian navy († 1846)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Israel Aksenfeld, Russian writer († 1866)
• Michael Frey, German composer, violinist and conductor († 1832)
• Oliver H. Prince, American politician († 1837)

Died

• February 04: Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (* 1708)
• FEBRUARY 12: Josip Bošković Rugjer, Italian - Serbian mathematician and astronomer (* 1711)
• February 13: Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman (* 1717)
• FEBRUARY 25: Anton Ignaz von Fugger - Glött, German canon in Cologne ( * 1711)

• April 02: Thomas Gage, the British commander in chief of the armed forces (* 1719)
• April 03: Tommaso Maria Ghilini, Italian Catholic cardinal (* 1718)

• MAY 25: Carl Gustav Jablonsky, German naturalist, entomologist and illustrator (* 1756 )
• MAY 28: Leopold Mozart, German composer and music teacher (* 1719)

• 04 July: Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, French general, marshal of France (* 1715 )

• August 01: Alexander von der Mark, illegitimate son of King Frederick William II of Prussia (* 1779)
• August 01: Alfonso Maria de Liguori, Italian jurist, Bishop and Founder (* 1696 )

• September 30: Anna Amalie, German composer (* 1723)
• 000September: Moses Browne, English poet, translator and cleric

• 07 October: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, German founder of the Lutheran Church in the USA (* 1711)
• OCTOBER 28: Johann Karl August Musaeus, German writer and literary critic (* 1735)
• October 30: Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist (* 1728)

• December 03: Philipp Erasmus Reich, German publisher (* 1717)
• December 05: Sven bearing Bring, Swedish historian (* 1707)
• December 07: Friedrich August Fischer, German jurist (* 1727)
• December 09: Bernhard Joachim Hagen, German composer (* 1720)
• December 18: Johann Jakob Shower, German poet (* 1725)

• Carlo Galli da Bibbiena, Italian decoration and theater artist ( * 1728)