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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Phillis Wheatley]] becomes the first African American woman to have her work published, after having written a poetic [[elegy]] to the late Reverend [[George Whitefield]].<ref>Vincent Carretta, ''Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage'' (University of Georgia Press, 2014) p78</ref> 
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[James Bruce]] discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Louis XV of France|King Louis XV]] of [[Kingdom of France|France]] issues the "Edict of December", dismissing the rebellious magistrates of the [[Parlements]] of Paris and the other 13 provinces.<ref>
Leonore Loft, ''Passion, Politics, and Philosophie: Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002) p55</ref><ref>Dale K. Van Kley, ''The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791'' (Yale University Press, 1996) p249</ref>
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[France]]'s Secretary of the Navy, [[César Gabriel de Choiseul]], is dismissed from his position by the king.<ref>Antony Strugnell, ''Diderot’s Politics: A Study of the Evolution of Diderot’s Political Thought after the Encyclopedie'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) p123</ref>