[caption id=“attachment_4294” align=“alignleft” width=“364”] Westminster Palace (1016, rebuilt 1834-1840), Westminster Bridge (1750) and Big Ben (1859)[/caption]

In the year 1750, the Treaty of Madrid between Spain and Portugal authorizes a larger Brazil (Jan 13), riots break out in Paris fueled by rumors of police abducting children (May), Westminster Bridge is officially opened in London (Nov 18), Istanbul is devastated by several fires,  Britain produces c. 2% of the world’s output of industrial goods, and thus begins the Industrial Revolution - and all these fine people were born:

1750-xxxx Saara Heikintytär Venäläinen** (b Nurmi )mother of Helena Antintytär Junni - Kindere, Viipuri msrk, Russian Empire (1819/68-69) 1750-0101 Frederick Muhlenberg* minister/ politician - Trappe, Province of Pennsylvania (1801/51) 1750-0110 Thomas Erskine* lawyer/ politician/important contributions to the protection of personal liberties - Edinburgh, Scotland (1823/73) 1750-0124 Helen Gloag* slave Empress of Morocco - Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland (1790/40) 1750-0316 Caroline Herschel* astronomer - Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1848/97) 1750-0413 Jahvetti Mikonpoika Kaitala* farmer/politician - Lammi, Sweden- Finland (1823/73) 1750-0417 François de Neufchâteau* statesman/poet/ agricultural scientist - Saffais, France (1828/77) 1750-0513 Lorenzo Mascheroni* Italian mathematician - Bergamo, Lombardy (1800/50) 1750-0520 Stephen Girard* (b Étienne Girard) French-American banker/ slave owner/philanthropist - Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (1831/81) 1750-0606 William Morgan* physician/ physicist/statistician considered the father of modern actuarial science - Bridgend, Glamorganshire, Wales (1833/82) 1750-0705 Ami Argand* physicist/chemist/inventor of the Argand lamp - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1803/53) 1750-0712 Edward Falkner* merchant/ slave trader/High Sheriff of Lancashire - Lancashire, England (1825/75) 1750-0725 Jaakko Högman* (b Hökkä) religious pioneer - Karjalankylä, Sweden-Finland (1806/55) 1750-0725 Henry Knox* military officer of the Continental Army/the first United States Secretary of War -  Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1806/56) 1750-0818 Antonio Salieri* composer/ conductor/teacher - Legnago, Republic of Venice (1825) 1750-0905 Robert Ferguson* poet - Edinburgh, Scotland (1774/24) 1750-0918 Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa* poet - Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (1791/40) 1750-1008 Adam Afzelius* botanist - Larv, Västergötland, Sweden (1837/86) 1750-1025 Marie Le Masson Le Golft* naturalist - Le Havre, France (1826/76) 1750-1225 Samuel Ödmann* theologian/psalm writer/naturalist - Växjö, Sweden (1829/78) Updated 4.4.2023-4 Search for another year here