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1 Events

• Académie française produces new edition of its dictionary of the French language.

2 New Books

• Slavonic-Bulgarian History - Paisii Hilendarski
• Éloge de Richardson - Denis Diderot
• Émile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Le Contrat Social ( The Social Contract), also by Rousseau
• Ollivier - Jacques Cazotte

3 Births

• January 11 - Andrew Cherry
• September 11 - Joanna Baillie
• September 24September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). There are 98 days remaining. Events 622 Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina 1493 Christopher Columbus departs on his second expedition to the New World 1664 Netherlands surren - William Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle Bowles ( September 24, 1762 April 7, 1850) was an English poet and critic. He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of fourteen he entered Winchester College, the headmaster at the time being Dr

4 Deaths

• August 21August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining. Events 1600-1799 1680 Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt 1770 James Cook formally claims eastern Aust - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu