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1784 (MDCCLXXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday (dominical letter GF) of the Julian calendar , the 1784th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 784th year of the 2nd millennium , the 84th year of the 18th century , and the 5th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1784, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 17 – Philippe Antoine d’Ornano , Marshal of France (d. 1863 )
January 28 – George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860 )
February 5 – Nancy Hanks , mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818 )
February 29 – Leo von Klenze , German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (d. 1864 )
March 12 – William Buckland , English geologist and paleontologist (d. 1856 )
March 22 – Samuel Hunter Christie , English physicist and mathematician (d. 1865 )
April 5 – Louis Spohr , German violinist and composer (d. 1859 )
April 13 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel , Prussian field marshal (d. 1877 )
April 24 – Peter Vivian Daniel , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1860 )
June 24 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja , Uruguayan military and political figure (d. 1853 ))
July 21 – Charles Baudin , French admiral (d. 1854 )
July 22 – Friedrich Bessel , German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846 )
July 27 – Denis Davydov , Russian general and poet (d. 1839 )
August 18 – Robert Taylor , British Radical writer, and freethought advocate (d. 1844 )
September 4 – William Pope Duval , first civilian governor of Florida Territory (d. 1854 )
October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833 )
October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud , Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849 )
October 19
October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865 )
October – Sarah Biffen , armless English painter (d. 1850 )
November 24 – Zachary Taylor , 12th President of the United States (d. 1850 )
November 27 – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (d. 1853 )
date unknown - Mary Anne Whitby , English scientist (d. 1850 )
February 27 – Count of St. Germain (b. 1710 )
April 26 – Nano Nagle , Irish convent founder (b. 1718 )
May 10 – Antoine Court de Gébelin , French pastor (b. 1725 )
May 12 – Abraham Trembley , Swiss naturalist (b. 1710 )
June 8 – Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani , Croatian poet (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 5 – Phillis Wheatley , First African-American to publish a book (b. 1753 )
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 – Lê Quý Đôn , Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726 )
References [ edit ]
^ Koch, Christophe; Schoell, Maximillian Samson Friedrich (1839). The Revolutions of Europe: Being an Historical View of the European Nations from the Subversion of the Roman Empire in the West to the Abdication of Napoleon . Whittaker and Company.
^ Cavendish, Henry (1784). "Experiments on Air". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . 75 : 372–384. doi :10.1098/rstl.1785.0023 . JSTOR 106582 .
^ Michell, John (1784). "On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should be Found to Take Place in any of Them, and Such Other Data Should be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose. By the Rev. John Michell, B.D.F.R.S. In a Letter to Henry Cavendish, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S.". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . 75 : 35–57. Bibcode :1784RSPT...74...35M . doi :10.1098/rstl.1784.0008 . JSTOR 106576 .
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