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* [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]] from New York settle [[Great Abaco]] in the [[Bahamas]].
* The city of [[Sevastopol]] is founded on the [[Crimean Peninsula]] of the [[Russian Empire]], by Rear Admiral [[Thomas MacKenzie (Russian admiral)|Thomas MacKenzie]].
* Princess [[Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova]] is elected an honorary member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], the first female foreign member and its second female member, after [[Eva Ekeblad]].
* The [[Evan Williams (bourbon)]] distillery is founded in [[Bardstown, Kentucky]].
* [[Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa]], the Emir of Zubarah conquers and rules Bahrain. Shaikh Ahmed restores Arab independence and sovereignty over Bahrain and makes the islands his summer residence.</onlyinclude>