February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from King
Stanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's threatened partition between three foreign powers.[3]
Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in
Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by
Native Americans, in which his son is killed.
November 10 – Four ships – the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, the Beaver and the William – depart Britain for America, carrying the first Indian tea to be subject to the newly enacted taxes. The William is lost in a storm; the Dartmouth is the first ship to reach
Boston, docking on
November 28.[9]
Istanbul Technical University is established (under the name of Royal School of Naval Engineering) as the world's first comprehensive institution of higher learning dedicated to engineering education.
In
China, written work begins on the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history (surpassing the
Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century). Upon completion in
1782, the books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million
Chinese characters.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
^Burke, Edmund, ed. (1774). The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1773. J. Dodsley. p. 25.
^Cook, James (1821). The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World. Vol. III: Being the First of the Second Voyage. London: Longman, Hurst and Rees. pp. 122–128.
^Corman, Brian (2013). The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Broadview Press. p. 359.
^du Quenoy, Paul (2014). "Arabs under Tsarist Rule: The Russian Occupation of Beirut, 1773–1774". Russian History. 41 (2): 128–141.
doi:
10.1163/18763316-04102002.
^Keith R. Dawson, Caroline Princess of Wales & Other Forgotten People of History (Strategic Book Publishing, 2010) p67
^"История". balletacademy.ru. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
February 8 – The Grand Council of Poland meets in Warsaw, summoned by a circular letter from King
Stanisław August Poniatowski to respond to the Kingdom's threatened partition between three foreign powers.[3]
Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in
Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by
Native Americans, in which his son is killed.
November 10 – Four ships – the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, the Beaver and the William – depart Britain for America, carrying the first Indian tea to be subject to the newly enacted taxes. The William is lost in a storm; the Dartmouth is the first ship to reach
Boston, docking on
November 28.[9]
Istanbul Technical University is established (under the name of Royal School of Naval Engineering) as the world's first comprehensive institution of higher learning dedicated to engineering education.
In
China, written work begins on the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, the largest literary compilation of books in China's history (surpassing the
Yongle Encyclopedia of the 15th Century). Upon completion in
1782, the books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million
Chinese characters.
^Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN0-14-102715-0.
^Burke, Edmund, ed. (1774). The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Year 1773. J. Dodsley. p. 25.
^Cook, James (1821). The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World. Vol. III: Being the First of the Second Voyage. London: Longman, Hurst and Rees. pp. 122–128.
^Corman, Brian (2013). The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Broadview Press. p. 359.
^du Quenoy, Paul (2014). "Arabs under Tsarist Rule: The Russian Occupation of Beirut, 1773–1774". Russian History. 41 (2): 128–141.
doi:
10.1163/18763316-04102002.
^Keith R. Dawson, Caroline Princess of Wales & Other Forgotten People of History (Strategic Book Publishing, 2010) p67
^"История". balletacademy.ru. Retrieved February 5, 2024.