January 22 –
Russian troops under the command of
William Fermor invade East
Prussia and capture
Königsberg with 34,000 soldiers; although the city is later abandoned by Russia after the Seven Years' War ends, the city again comes under Russian control in 1945 during World War II and is now named
Kaliningrad.[5]
February 22 – A fleet of 158 British Royal Navy warships, under the command of Admiral
Edward Boscawen, departs from
Plymouth toward North America in an effort to conquer the French Canadian territories of
New France. Many of the sailors die of nutritional deficiencies along the way, including the
scurvy that kills 26 of the crew of
HMS Pembroke, captained by future world explorer
James Cook on his first long voyage.[6]
February 23 –
Jonathan Edwards, the famed English theologian who had assumed the presidency of what is now
Princeton University only a week earlier, sets an example for students and faculty by publicly receiving an
inoculation against
smallpox.[7] Unfortunately, the vaccine contains live smallpox; Edwards develops the disease and dies on March 22 at the age of 54.
June 9–
10 – Spanish-Barbary Wars –
Battle of Cape Palos: a Spanish squadron of three ships of the line defeats a Barbary squadron made up of a ship of the line and a frigate.
Marquis Gabriel de Lernay, a French officer captured during the Seven Years' War, establishes a military lodge in Berlin, with the help of Baron de Printzen, master of The Three Globes Lodge at Berlin, and Philipp Samuel Rosa, a disgraced former pastor.
January 22 –
Russian troops under the command of
William Fermor invade East
Prussia and capture
Königsberg with 34,000 soldiers; although the city is later abandoned by Russia after the Seven Years' War ends, the city again comes under Russian control in 1945 during World War II and is now named
Kaliningrad.[5]
February 22 – A fleet of 158 British Royal Navy warships, under the command of Admiral
Edward Boscawen, departs from
Plymouth toward North America in an effort to conquer the French Canadian territories of
New France. Many of the sailors die of nutritional deficiencies along the way, including the
scurvy that kills 26 of the crew of
HMS Pembroke, captained by future world explorer
James Cook on his first long voyage.[6]
February 23 –
Jonathan Edwards, the famed English theologian who had assumed the presidency of what is now
Princeton University only a week earlier, sets an example for students and faculty by publicly receiving an
inoculation against
smallpox.[7] Unfortunately, the vaccine contains live smallpox; Edwards develops the disease and dies on March 22 at the age of 54.
June 9–
10 – Spanish-Barbary Wars –
Battle of Cape Palos: a Spanish squadron of three ships of the line defeats a Barbary squadron made up of a ship of the line and a frigate.
Marquis Gabriel de Lernay, a French officer captured during the Seven Years' War, establishes a military lodge in Berlin, with the help of Baron de Printzen, master of The Three Globes Lodge at Berlin, and Philipp Samuel Rosa, a disgraced former pastor.