* December 3 – Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in the U. S. presidential election.

With incumbent President George Washington having refused a third term in office, incumbent Vice President John Adams from Massachusetts became a candidate for the presidency on the Federalist Party ticket with former Governor Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina as the next most popular Federalist.

Although Adams won the presidency, Thomas Jefferson received more electoral votes than Pinckney and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral balloting.

* Thomas Pinckney, former Governor of South Carolina

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* All eight South Carolina electors ( along with at least one Pennsylvania elector ) voted for native son Thomas Pinckney.

The United States presidential election of 1804 pitted incumbent Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson against Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

Madison had served as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson, and Pinckney had been the unsuccessful Federalist candidate in the election of 1804.

The town was named after Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina.

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** Thomas Pinckney ( F ), from November 23, 1797

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* December 3, 1804: United States presidential election, 1804: Incumbent Thomas Jefferson ( DR ) beat challenger Charles Cotesworth Pinckney ( F )

Thomas Pinckney negotiated the treaty for the United States and Don Manuel de Godoy represented Spain.

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He was the elder brother of Thomas Pinckney, who served as Governor of South Carolina, as a U. S. Representative, and as a George Washington administration diplomat.

His first cousin once removed, Charles Pinckney, served as Governor of South Carolina, as a U. S. Senator, and as a Thomas Jefferson administration diplomat.

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

In 1750 Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.

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* 1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor ( d. 1823 )

Thomas married Hannah Harrison Ludwell ( 1701 – 1750 ).

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* Thomas Stock ( 1750 – 1803 ), English clergyman

* 1750 — Thomas Wright discusses galaxies and the shape of the Milky Way,

In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker of Virginia publicized the location of Cumberland Gap, which brought a stream of long hunters down the Clinch and Powell valleys into what is now Claiborne County.

The original survey and plat of the Town of Smithfield was made by Jordan Thomas, County Surveyor, for Captain Arthur Smith in 1750.

The land on which the town of Abingdon is situated was originally surveyed between the years 1748 and 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker and was part of the Great Road that Colonel William Byrd III ordered cut through the wilderness on to Kingsport, Tennessee.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

A notable example that established the genre in English literature is Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ( 1750 ).

The Forest Service investigated the name ' Cumberland ', and found it came to Kentucky in 1750 when Thomas Walker named the Cumberland River in honor of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

Chelsea takes its name from the estate and Georgian-style house of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who obtained the property when he bought the farm of Jacob Somerindyck on August 16, 1750.

In 1750, he attacked Thomas Sherlock's notions of antediluvian prophecy, which had been published 25 years before.

Also included is Thomas Gray's, " Elegy on a Country Churchyard " ( 1750 ).

Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse ( 29 May 1750 – 24 July 1812 ) was a French admiral.

* Thomas Brown ( loyalist ) ( 1750 – 1825 ), American Revolution commander of King's Rangers in Georgia

Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

* Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton, 6th Baron Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ) ( created Marquess of Rockingham in 1746 )