From 1784 to 1820, Cape Breton Island was established as a separate colony with a Lieutenant Governor and a nominated Executive Council, but without an elected house of assembly.

Incorporated on January 17, 1760 by Governor Benning Wentworth, it was named after Lieutenant Peter Prescott ( 1709 – 1784 ) of Concord, Massachusetts, a prominent land speculator.

He also served as the first Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of the Superior Court, during the American Revolution ( 1769 – 1784 ).

His son from his first marriage, the third Earl, served as Lord Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire from 1794 to 1816 and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1784 to 1794.

Moore kept a detailed diary from 1784 until 1806, later published in thirty-seven volumes, which provides a unique account of his service as Lieutenant, Commander and Captain.

Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet KCH PC ( 21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854 ) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras ( 1814 – 1822 ), Van Diemen's Land ( now the State of Tasmania, part of Australia ) ( 1823 – 1837 ) and Upper Canada ( 1838 – 1841 ).

Lieutenant Francis George Farewell ( 1784 – 1829 ), the founder of the Port Natal Colony in South Africa, was born at Holbrook House near Wincanton in the Blackmore Vale in 1784.

Rutland was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on 11 February 1784.

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.

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.

He soon discovered many more binary and multiple stars than expected, and compiled them with careful measurements of their relative positions in two catalogues presented to the Royal Society in London in 1782 ( 269 double or multiple systems ) and 1784 ( 434 systems ).

In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called " spherical case " ammunition: a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air.

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.

* Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ( 1784 )

* The Crescent ( 1780 – 1784 ) was modelled on Bath's Royal Crescent by John Carr along with the neighbouring irregular octagon and colonnade of the Great Stables.

During 18th century many European kings followed and founded their own academy of sciences: in 1714 in Bologna, in 1724 the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1731 the Royal Dublin Society, in 1735 in Tuscany, in 1739 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 1742 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in 1751 the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, in 1754 in Erfurt, in 1759 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in 1763 the Academia Theodoro-Palatina in Heidelberg, in 1779 the Sciences Academy of Lisbon, in 1783 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1782 the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, in 1784 in Turin.

On his return he modelled his colossal " Achilles mourning the loss of Briseis ", a work full of force and passion ; and then he was elected, in 1784, an associate of the Royal Academy and in the following year a full member.

* 16 August 1763 – 27 November 1784: His Royal Highness The Prince Frederick

* 27 November 1784 – 5 January 1827: His Royal Highness The Duke of York and Albany

The Royal Mail stagecoach, a mail coach introduced in 1784, hastened the improvement of the road system in the British Isles through the turnpike trust system.

William Farren ( 13 May 1786 – 24 September 1861 ), English actor, was born the son of an actor ( born 1725 ) of the same name, who played leading roles from 1784 to 1795 at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

In 1784 Piccinni became professor at the Royal School of Music, one of the institutions from which the Conservatoire was formed in 1794.

After the Butler ’ s Rangers disbanded in 1784 and settled the area, Duncan Murray as a former Quartermaster in the 84th Regiment of Foot ( Royal Highland Emigrants ) was appointed by the Crown the right to distribute free Government supplies ( victuals ) for 2 years.

* William Johnson ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1784 – 1851 ), Scottish Naval Captain

His drawing of Vauxhall, shown in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784, had been engraved by Pollard, and the print was a success.

The earliest known performance of the straight Shakespearean text was at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1784, advertised as " Shaxespeare's with alterations.

Earliest known performance of straight Shakespearean text at Royal Opera House in 1784, although because of the inclusion of the play in Palladis Tamia, we know it was definitely performed in Shakespeare's day.

In a parallel situation for the Royal Townships of the yet-to-formed colony of Upper Canada the thoughfares of the United Empire Loyalist settlement of Cornwall, Ontario were, in 1784, named Pitt Street and Sydney Street in honour of the prime minister and his foreign secretary.

Portrait of de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun ( 1784 ), London, Royal Collection

Benjamin Franklin was a proponent in the 1770s ; the Honourable Artillery Company had an archer company between 1784 and 1794 ; and a man named Richard Mason wrote a book proposing the arming of militia with pike and longbow in 1798.

There was a flying craze in France and Scotland with James Tytler, Scotland's first aeronaut and the first Briton to fly, but even so and after a year since the invention of the balloon, the English were still skeptical, and so George Biggin and ' Vincent ' Lunardi, " The Daredevil Aeronaut ", together decided to demonstrate a hydrogen balloon flight at the Artillery Ground of the Honourable Artillery Company in London on 15 September 1784.

On 15 September 1784 Vincent Lunardi, flew a balloon from the Artillery Ground, the first such flight in England.

In 1784 the first newspaper, the Grenada Chronicle, began publication.

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.

A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire ( 1784 – 1812 ).

Marggraf's student and successor Franz Karl Achard began selectively breeding sugar beet from the White Silesian fodder beet in 1784.

His Majesty's Ship ( HMS ) Bounty began her career as the collier Bethia, a relatively small sailing ship built in 1784 at the Blaydes shipyard in Hull.

Carl Delius worked in England and gave plans for many of Arkwright's inventions to Johann Gottfried Brugelmann ; Brugelmann used the information to establish a mill in Ratingen, near Düsseldorf, which began production in 1784.

Immediately after the period when the colonists were fighting for independence, or beginning with 1784 or 1785, several families leased land in Grafton from the patroon and began the cultivation of the land there.

However, a fashion for large-scale performances began in 1784, in a series of commemorative concerts of Handel's music given in Westminster Abbey under the patronage of King George III.

The tunnel was expected to take four years to complete when work began at the start of 1784, but it was not completed until April 1789.

Formerly known as Leamington Priors, its expansion began following the popularisation of the medicinal qualities of its water by Dr Kerr in 1784, and by Dr Lambe around 1797.

In 1784 he began to study medicine at Edinburgh University.

In 1784 he began the publication of the Annals of Agriculture, which was continued for 45 volumes: contributors included King George III, writing under the nom de plume of " Ralph Robinson.

It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops.

In 1784, when Franz Mesmer began to publicize his theory of " animal magnetism ", which was considered offensive by many, Louis XVI appointed a commission to investigate it and Guillotin was appointed as a member of it along with Benjamin Franklin and others.

On 10 January 1784 Soane took a Miss Elizabeth Smith to the theatre, then on 7 February she took tea with Soane and friends, and they began attending plays and concerts together regularly.

Four major ironworks, Dowlais, Plymouth, Cyfarthfa and Penydarren, began production between 1759 and 1784, but transport of the finished iron was difficult.

In the autumn of 1784, he began to practice as a surgeon at Sudbury in Suffolk.

By 1784 ( the year that her putative biological father died ), however, she began to write essays, manifestoes, and socially conscious plays.

Construction began in 1784 and was opened in 1805, while still under construction.

Movement towards replacing the Articles of Confederation began the year after its formal adoption in June 1784.

He graduated from Princeton College in 1784, studied law under General Joseph Reed and Jared Ingersoll, was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1787, and began a practice in Wilmington, Delaware.

This new church, began in 1784, had its interior decorated in the beginning of the 19th century and was consecrated in 1834.

After he passed the bar in 1784, he began practicing in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.