Person report

★26 Jun 1740
War of Jenkins' Ear: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida.

★06 Jun 1749
A plot by Muslim slaves in Malta to assassinate Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Knights Hospitaller was uncovered.

★24 Nov 1750
Tarabai, former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed was her grandson, arrested as an impostor.

★28 Jan 1754
Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.

★06 May 1757
English poet Christopher Smart was admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

★13 Sep 1759
Seven Years' War: British forces defeated the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham near Quebec City, New France, though General James Wolfe was mortally wounded.

★20 Mar 1760
A fire of unknown cause broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, destroying 349 buildings and leaving over a thousand people homeless.

★25 Oct 1760
George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland.

★16 Dec 1761
Seven Years' War: Russian forces captured Kolberg, Prussia's last port on the Baltic coast, after a four-month siege.

★04 Mar 1769
French astronomer Charles Messier first noted the Orion Nebula, a bright nebula situated south of Orion's Belt, later cataloguing it as Messier 42 in his list of Messier objects.

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