John Wesley consecrated Thomas Coke a " General Superintendent ," and directed that Francis Asbury also be consecrated for the United States of America in 1784, where the Methodist Episcopal Church first became a separate denomination apart from the Church of England.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

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.

* 1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.

* John Brown ( minister ) ( 1784 – 1858 ), Scottish clergyman and writer

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

* 1784 – John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader ( d. 1857 )

The seed of the myth of Stuart Jacobite influence on the higher degrees may have been a careless and unsubstantiated remark made by John Noorthouk in the 1784 Book of Constitutions of the Premier Grand Lodge of London.

As a result of the American Revolution, John Wesley was compelled in 1784 to break with standard practice and ordain two of his lay preachers as presbyters ( Thomas Vasey and Richard Whatcoat.

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

* September 3 – John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper ( b. 1784 )

* July 27 – John Frost, British Chartist leader ( b. 1784 )

Dr. John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, ( October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857 ) was the Chief Factor of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver.

In 1784, in Lancaster, John Toms was tried and convicted for murdering Edward Culshaw with a pistol.

John Jay, who had been secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation from 1784 through their expiration in 1789, became the first Chief Justice of the United States in 1789, stepping down in 1795 to accept election as governor of New York, a post he held for two terms, retiring in 1801.

So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony — New Brunswick — was created in 1784 ; followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada ( French Canada ) along the St. Lawrence River and Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital settled by 1796 in York, in present-day Toronto.

* John Dunlap ( 1747 – 1812 ), publisher of the first American daily newspaper the Pennsylvania Packet in 1784, also the printer of the American Declaration of Independence.

* 1784 — John Michell discusses classical bodies which have escape velocities greater than the speed of light

The second variable star to be described was the eclipsing variable Algol, by Geminiano Montanari in 1669 ; John Goodricke gave the correct explanation of its variability in 1784.

In 1784, on his 50th birthday, historian John Filson published The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke, a book which included a chronicle of Boone's adventures.

Letter from John Cox, 1784

* John Brown ( 1738 – 1812 ), militia captain during the Revolutionary War, served as one of the state Treasurers ( 1782 – 1784 ), and served in the North Carolina state legislature ( 1784 – 1787 ).

Governor John Langdon House | Governor Langdon House ( 1784 )

He joined the London Youth Choir, formed by John Hasted and Eric Winter, which went to a number of World Youth Festivals in the 1950s.

The study was led by John Hasted, and on June 21 and 22, 1974, Hasted and Sarfatti joined David Bohm, Arthur Koestler, Arthur C. Clarke, and two of Geller's associates, Ted Bastin and Brendan O ' Regan, to watch Geller display what he said were his psychokinetic powers.