1784

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years:	1781 1782 1783 - 1784 - 1785 1786 1787

Year 1784 (MDCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1784

February 28: John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.

King Carlos III of the Spanish Empire authorizes land grants in Alta California.
The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Morgansborough, named for Daniel Morgan. The town is designated as the county seat for Burke County, North Carolina and is subsequently renamed "Morgantown" and later shortened to become Morganton.
The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King George III of Great Britain, to Kinston.
The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation.
Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight.
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles.
Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry.
Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton.
Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a revolution in Transylvania.
A huge locust swarm hits South Africa.
Cholesterol is isolated.
Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing 1:n as (n(n+1))/2, at the age of 7.
Madame du Coudray retires.
The India Act requires that the governor general be chosen from outside the British East India Company and it makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision.

January 27 - Count of St. Germain (b. 1710)
April 26 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
May 12 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
June 13 - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
June 26 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)

July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
July 31 - Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
August 10 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
August 14 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
August 28 - Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)
September 4 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
September 8 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
December 4 - Wiseman Claget, English classical scholar (b. 1721)
December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
December 25 - Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
December 26 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
date unknown - Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726)

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