1765. The peruke makers, distressed that people wore their own hair, and that foreigners were employed, petitioned the king for redress. But the populace, not seeing the consistency of being compelled to take
off their hair while the peruke makers wore their own, rose upon them, and cut it off.
1767. Hubert Drouais died; a painter of Normandy, who by pencil raised himself from obscurity to fame and opulence.
1773. John Gregory, an eminent physician of Edinburgh, died. He taught that the medical art, to be generally admired and respected, needed only to be better known; and that the affectation of concealment retarded its progress, rendered it a suspicious art, and tended to draw ridicule and disgrace on its profession. His writings are spirited and elegant; among them A Father's Legacy to his Daughter is well known and appreciated.
1778. Two clergymen having preached in a chapel in Clerkenwell street, London, without leave of the bishop, were prosecuted, and the chapel shut by a writ of monition.
1779. William Boyce died; an eminent English musician and composer, chiefly of sacred pieces.
1782. Benjamin Martin died in London; one of the most celebrated mathematicians and opticians of the age in which he lived.
1795. Ferdinand III of Austria recognized the French republic, and made peace with it. This was the first power that acknowledged the new dynasty.
1795. The first parliament opened in Corsica, then subject to England.
1795. Treaty of peace signed between France and Tuscany.