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* Chief [[Kamehameha I of Hawaii]] gains control of the northern part of the [[island of Hawaii]], after [[Battle of Mokuohai|defeating]] his cousin [[Kīwalaʻō]].
* Princess [[Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova]] is the first woman in the world to direct a scientific academy, the [[Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences]].
* London creates the [[Bow Street Foot Patrols|Foot Patrol]] for public security.
* The [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]] extends [[James Watt]]'s patent for the [[Watt steam engine|steam engine]] to the year [[1800]].
* The [[North Carolina General Assembly]] incorporates [[Washington, North Carolina]].
* In China, the [[Complete Library of the Four Treasuries]] is completed, the largest literary compilation in China's history (surpassing the [[Yongle Encyclopedia]] of the 15th century). The books are bound in 36,381 volumes (册) with more than 79,000 chapters (卷), comprising about 2.3 million pages, and approximately 800 million [[Chinese characters]].
* The first theater in the Baltic, the [[Riga City Theater]], is founded.
* [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire|Russia]] has 300,000 inhabitants.
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