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* The [[University of New Brunswick]] is founded in [[Fredericton, New Brunswick|Fredericton]], [[New Brunswick]].
* [[Coal gas]] is first used for [[lighting|illumination]].
* [[Louis XVI of France]] signs a law that a [[handkerchief]] must be square.
* The British government establishes a permanent land force in the Eastern Caribbean, based in [[Barbados]].
* [[Belfast Academy]] (later [[Belfast Royal Academy]]) is founded by Rev. [[James Crombie (minister)|James Crombie]] in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].
* [[Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi]] publishes ''Letters on the Teachings of Spinoza'', and starts the [[Pantheism controversy]].
* [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] becomes a [[lieutenant]] in the French artillery.
* ''[[Cabinet des Modes]]'', the first fashion magazine, is published in France. 
* [[Mozart]]'s ''"Haydn" String Quartets'' are published, as is his collaboration with Salieri and Cornetti, ''[[Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia]]''.
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*Charles Adams, John Adams’ son and John Quincy Adams's brother enters Harvard in August, at age 15. A few months later, he starts to drink often and would get into trouble, and was almost expelled from Harvard when he was caught running naked through the Campus while drunk with other boys.