* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

* 1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter ( b. 1713 )

In any case Napoleon went to Brienne 1779 – 1784.

* 1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter ( d. 1784 )

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ), King of Westphalia

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

* 1784 – Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1803 )

David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 – 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 – 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 – 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.

* 1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias ( d. 1806 )

* 1784 – Archduke Louis of Austria ( d. 1864 )

* 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer ( b. 1709 )

Aberdeen married firstly Lady Catherine Elizabeth ( 1784 – 1812 ), daughter of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, and assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Hamilton in 1818.

* George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 1784 – 1860 )

* James Duane, Mayor of New York City 1784, son of a Galway man.

* James Henry Monk ( 1784 – 1856 ), English divine and classical scholar

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, from where James Freeman began teaching Unitarian doctrine in 1784, and was appointed rector and revised the Prayer Book according to Unitarian doctrines in 1786.

Both parties began as loose groupings or tendencies, but became quite formal by 1784, with the ascension of Charles James Fox as the leader of a reconstituted " Whig " party ranged against the governing party of the new " Tories " under William Pitt the Younger.

* James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie ( 1784 – 1843 ) 1840 – 1843

Twenty-five were created between 1688 and 1784 by James II in exile after his dethronement, by his son James Stuart (" The Old Pretender ") and his grandson Charles Edward Stuart (" Bonny Prince Charlie ").

The son of Benjamin Joule ( 1784 – 1858 ), a wealthy brewer, and Alice Prescott Joule, James Prescott Joule was born in the house adjoining the Joule Brewery in New Bailey Street, Salford 24 December 1818.

She lived there, occasionally visiting brother James, ministering to the Native Americans, and raising silkworms for the local silk industry, until her death in 1784 at the age of 87.

By 1784, the Johnson family had moved to Great Crossing in Scott County, on land purchased by Johnson's father from Patrick Henry and James Madison.

In 1784 he returned and surveyed some 50, 000 acres for James Moore and Col. John Donelson.

Settled as early as 1784, Monroe was platted in 1817 and was named after then-President James Monroe.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

The 1784 ordinance was criticized by George Washington in 1785 and James Monroe in 1786.

In 1784 he took a journey south for the purpose of enlarging his knowledge, visiting James Watt at Soho, Staffordshire.

* James Henry Leigh Hunt ( 1784 – 1859 ), Romantic critic, essayist and poet

From 1784 James Rumsey built a pump-driven ( water jet ) boat and successfully steamed upstream on the Potomac River in 1786 ; the following year he obtained a patent from the State of Virginia.

James Henry Monk ( 1784 – 1856 ) was an English divine and classical scholar.

After his death in 1784 renowned architect James Gandon was appointed to finish the building, which we recognise today as the Four Courts.

James Henry Leigh Hunt ( 19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859 ), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer.

James Small ( 1730, Dalkeith, Midlothian-1793 ) was a Scottish inventor instrumental in the invention of the modern-style iron swing plough in 1763 or 1784.

Essex Building, erected 1756 – 60, is so named after its builder, James Essex the Younger ( 1722 – 1784 ), a local carpenter who had earlier erected the wooden bridge.

Henry Middleton ( 1717 – June 13, 1784 ) was a plantation owner and public official from South Carolina.

This had been achieved much earlier for lead and copper as well as for producing pig iron in a blast furnace, but the second stage in the production of bar iron depended on the use of potting and stamping ( for which a patent expired in 1786 ) or puddling ( patented by Henry Cort in 1784 ).

Before them, in 1784, the English chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish had discovered that air contains a small proportion of a substance less reactive than nitrogen.

* October 18 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1784 )

It was developed by Norwegian industrialist and scientist Kristian Birkeland along with his business partner Sam Eyde in 1903, based on a method used by Henry Cavendish in 1784.

** Henry Middleton, second President of the Continental Congress ( d. 1784 )

* Henry C. Wilkinson, Bermuda from Sail to Steam: The History of the Island from 1784 to 1901: Volumes I and II ( Oxford University, London, 1973 )

* Dr Henry Wilkinson, Bermuda From Sail To Steam: The History Of The Island From 1784 to 1901, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, UK OX2 6DP.

Sir Edward Walpole ( c. 1706 – 1784 ); he had an illegitimate daughter, Maria Walpole, who later married into the British Royal Family, becoming the wife of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, King George III's brother.

* 1784 — Henry Cavendish defines the inductive capacity of dielectrics ( insulators ) and measures the specific inductive capacity of various substances by comparison with an air condenser.

* Bermuda From Sail To Steam: The History Of The Island From 1784 to 1901, Dr. Henry Wilkinson, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-215932-1

Henry lived at Leatherwood from 1779 to 1784 ; he owned 75 slaves and cultivated tobacco.

In 1784, Henry was elected again for a one-year term by the legislature as governor of Virginia, and re-elected twice more, serving until 1786.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC ( 20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865 ), known popularly as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century.

Henry John Temple was born in his family's Westminster house to the Irish branch of the Temple family on 20 October 1784.

* David Steele, ‘ Temple, Henry John, third Viscount Palmerston ( 1784 – 1865 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009, accessed 11 December 2010.

Henry Thrale adopted its use and it was later popularized by John Richardson in 1784.

William Huggins ' and Henry Boyd's translations were published in 1757 and 1784, respectively.

* William Henry ( 1784 – 1864 ), was a fur trader with the North West Company and later a surveyor and civil engineer at Montreal.