Since the Bishop of London refused to ordain ministers in the British American colonies, this constituted an emergency, and as a result, on 2 September 1784, Rev.

From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

Diderot died of gastrointestinal problems in Paris on July 31, 1784, and was buried in the city's Église Saint-Roch.

Ethan met his second wife, a young widow by the name of Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, early in 1784, and married her after a brief courtship on February 16, 1784.

* Essay on natural religion by Allen: Reason: The Only Oracle of Man, published 1784

Born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1784, he was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo, son of George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen.

Middleton died on June 13, 1784 in Charleston.

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 ).

Reynolds painted by American artist Gilbert Stuart, oil on canvas, 1784

The Eiderkanal was completed during the reign of Christian VII of Denmark in 1784 and was a part of a long waterway from Kiel to the Eider River's mouth at Tönning on the west coast.

Upon the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, Coke ( already ordained in the Church of England ) ordained Asbury a deacon, elder, and bishop each on three successive days.

* 1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

The first Pterodactylus specimen was described by the Italian scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini in 1784, based on a fossil skeleton unearthed from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria.

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.

In the Subcontinent he was entranced by Indian culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship, and on 15 January 1784 he founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

Notable acts as president included George Washington resigning his commission and the signing of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 ( Ratification Day ) along with Charles Thomson, who served as Secretary.

Mifflin also appointed Thomas Jefferson as Minister Plenipotentiary to France on May 7, 1784.

His sister Jane Bowdler ( 1743 – 1784 ) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler ( Harriet ) ( 1750 – 1830 ) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.

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.

* 1784 " Experiments and observations on the terra ponderosa " Phil trans 74: 293-311

Jardine, one of five children, was born in 1784 on a small farm near Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Year 1784 ( MDCCLXXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Built by the Greys in 1784, the folly is, by local legend, a memorial to John, an estate worker killed in a bonfire accident during celebrations of the 21st birthday of the future eighth Earl of Stamford.

* June 11-Urban Jarnik, Slovene poet and historian ( born 1784 )

Following the American Revolutionary War, United States clergyman and historian Jeremy Belknap and Postmaster General Ebenezer Hazard intended to create the first post-revolutionary geographical works and gazetteers, but they were anticipated by the clergyman and geographer Jedidiah Morse with his Geography Made Easy in 1784.

* Alphonse Rabbe ( 1784 – 1829 ), a French writer, historian, critic and journalist

To commemorate its 225th anniversary, BNY Mellon created a 5 part video series entitled " Looking Forward: The 225th Anniversary of The Bank of New York Mellon " which was narrated by historian Richard Brookhiser and recaps the company ’ s history from its founding in 1784.

The only record of Eaton's own supposed " confession " was destroyed in a suspicious fire in the office of the famous historian, James Savage ( 1784 – 1873 ), and his guilt remains in doubt.

According to historian Teodor Narbutt ( 1784 – 1864 ), the painting was acquired by Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania ( 1345 – 1377 ), as a war trophy from Crimea.

Teodor Narbutt ( November 8, 1784, in the village of Szawry near Hrodna – November 27, 1864 in Vilna ) was a Polish – Lithuanian writer, Romantic historian and military engineer.

His descendants include Field Marshal von Wrangel, granddaughter Luise Eleonore Wreech ( 1708 – 1784 ), a nephew-the military historian Kurd von Schöning and the rocket scientist, Wernher von Braun.

Georges Bernard Depping ( May 11, 1784 – September 5, 1853 ), also known as Georg Bernhard Depping, born in Münster, was a German-French historian.

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 )

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.

* 1784 John Hasted

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 )