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Born in 1784:
Zachary Taylor
, 12th
President of the United States
.
German
mathematician
and
astronomer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
, famous for
Bessel Curve
s as well as deducing that an
as-yet-undiscovered planet
was perturbing the orbit of
Uranus
.
Scottish
poet
Allan Cunningham
.
Andrew T. Judson
, presiding judge in the
Amistad
case.
Elizabeth Clovis Lange
, founder of the
Oblate Sisters of Providence
.
Died in 1784:
English writer and
lexicographer
Dr.
Samuel Johnson
.
Sister
Ann Lee
, founder of the
Shaker
sect.
American
poet
Phyllis Wheatley
.
French
encyclopedist
Denis Diderot
.
German
composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
.
Italian composer
Andrea Bernasconi
.
Spanish missionary
Father
Junipero Serra
.
Events of 1784:
]Immanuel Kant] publishes
An Answer to the Question:
What is Enlightenment?
"
The new
United States
government enacts a
treaty with the six
Iroqouis
nations
, rewarding the
Oneida
and
Tuscarora
who had fought on their side, and circumscribing the lands of the
Seneca
,
Mohawk
,
Onandaga
, and
Cayuga
who had fought on the side of the British.
the British
Parliament
under
William Pitt
the Younger passes the
India Act
.
John Goodricke
discovers that the star
Delta Cepheid
varies its brightness. It and later stars like it are now called
Cepheid variables
.
Charles Messier
publishes his famous
catalog
of 103 nebulous objects and star clusters.
The Spanish government in
Louisiana
enters into a treaty with the
Creek
s.
Choctaw
s,
Chickasaw
s, and other Southern Indian tribes. The same year, they close the
Mississippi River
to travel because of encroaching American settlment.
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