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* [[Caroline Herschel]] is granted an annual salary of [[Pound sterling|£]]50, by King [[George III of Great Britain]], for acting as assistant to her brother [[William Herschel|William]] in [[astronomy]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ogilvie|first= Marilyn Bailey|title=Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninscience00mari|url-access=registration|publisher=MIT Press|year=1986|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=[https://archive.org/details/womeninscience00mari/page/97 97–98]|isbn=0-262-65038-X}}</ref>
* The [[North Carolina General Assembly]] incorporates [[List of North Carolina state parks#Former units|Waynesborough]], and designates it the seat for [[Wayne County, North Carolina]]. The town becomes extinct after 1865.
* [[Antoine Lavoisier]] is the first to suggest that [[silica]] is an [[oxide]] of a hitherto unknown metallic [[chemical element]], later isolated and named [[silicon]].
* [[J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole]], the first serious school for girls in Denmark, is founded.
*A fossil bone recovered from [[Cretaceous]] strata at [[Woodbury, New Jersey]] is discussed by the [[American Philosophical Society]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs |editor1=Currie, Philip J. |editor2=Padian, Kevin |isbn=0-12-226810-5|location=San Diego|publisher=Elsevier|oclc=37141172|date = October 1997}}</ref>