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.

Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.

The original proposal was defeated in Congress in two votes ( May 1783, October 1783 ) with a truncated version also being rejected in April of 1784.

He served two terms in the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1775, and 1782 – 1784 ).

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.

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 1503 the Doctors of Law had 4 Theologians, and in 1784 two Doctors of Medicine added their ranks.

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.

Connecticut's independent legislature, in its January session of 1784, made New London one of the first two cities ( along with New Haven ) brought from de facto to formalized incorporations.

It was named for William Grayson, delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U. S. Senators from Virginia.

The opera was announced as a collaboration between the two composers ; however, after the overwhelming success of its premiere on 26 April 1784, Gluck revealed to the prestigious Journal de Paris that the work was wholly Salieri's.

Padre Junipero Serra died August 28, 1784, over two years before the completion of the Mission.

He died prematurely at Chowan County, North Carolina on Aug. 22, 1784, and his two daughters by his wife Sylvia ( Avery ) Stiles of Vermont ( and formerly of Norwich, Connecticut ) had their uncle Jonathan Leavitt appointed their guardian.

When moderate delegates then offered an alternative in April 1784 which scaled the projected army down to 900 men in 1 artillery and 3 infantry battalions, Congress rejected it as well, in part because New York feared that men retained from Massachusetts might take sides in a land dispute between the two states.

Based on the positive reaction to his two turns as the Apostle Peter, Fox assigned him another third-billed, top-tier role as a stalwart man of God, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra, who, between 1749 and his death in 1784, founded missions in Alta California.

Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an Essay on the Population of England ( 2nd ed., 1780 ) which directly influenced Thomas Robert Malthus ; two Fast-day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 1781 ; and Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World ( 1784 ).

Until recently it was thought that there were 28 cycles in the 309 years between 1699 and 2008, giving an average length of 11. 04 years, but recent research has showed that the longest of these ( 1784 – 1799 ) seems actually to have been two cycles, so that the average length is only around 10. 66 years.

Less than a million and a half dollars came into the treasury between 1781 and 1784, although the states had been asked for two million in 1783 alone.

Cullen's most popular and successful work was his medical textbook First Lines of the Practice of Physic, published in two volumes in 1777 and expanded with each edition until it reached four volumes in its final edition ( 1784 ).

Somers never married, but left two sisters, of whom the eldest, Mary, married Charles Cocks, whose grandson, Sir Charles Cocks, Bt., became the second Lord Somers in 1784, the title subsequently descending in this line.

By the outbreak of the Revolution, there were 36 généralités ; the last two were created as recently as 1784.

Another possibility, advanced by Lorenz ( 2006, 314 ), is that Mozart did not wait over two months to premiere the work, but performed it in his concert with Regina Strinasacchi on 29 April 1784 at the Kärntnertortheater.

Meantime he wrote two treatises, Essai sur l ' électricité ( 1781 ) and Physique générale et particulaire ( 1782 – 1784 ), which gained him the friendship of Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him subdemonstrator in the Jardin du Roi, and proposed that he continue Buffon's Histoire naturelle.

In 1784, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant summed up the program of the Enlightenment in two Latin words: sapere aude, dare to know — have the courage to think for yourself.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions ( which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli ).

Hradčany was an independent borough until 1784, when the four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were proclaimed a single city.

By 1784, similar requirements were made of Methodists as a whole, laity and clergy alike.

In 1784, the Italian Monte dei Paschi and Monte Pio banks were united as the Monti Reuniti.

Together with Coke, Wesley sent a revision of the Anglican Prayerbook and the Articles of Religion which were received and adopted by the Baltimore Christmas Conference of 1784, officially establishing the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1784, half the population were serfs, 400, 000 out of the 1 million French serfs.

The term for this class of objects is a partial misnomer that originated ( 1784 or 1785 ) with astronomer William Herschel, because when viewed through his telescope, these objects appeared to be clouds ( nebulae ) that were similar in appearance to Uranus, the planet that had been discovered telescopically by Herschel.

Sweden purchased the small Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy from France in 1784, then sold it back in 1878 ; the population had included slaves until they were freed by the Swedish government in 1847.

In 1784, the British turned over to Bhutanese control Bengal Duars territory, where boundaries were poorly defined.

From 1784 to 1789, the confederation's finances were overseen by a three-member Treasury Board.

Many of Struensee's reforms were reasonable, but badly timed and poorly executed ; many of them were eventually realised many years later, most notably after the coup d ' état of 1784.

Also, future revolutionary leader Maximilien de Robespierre and abolitionist Abbé Grégoire were awarded by the National Academy of Metz in 1784 and 1787, respectively, for their essays on capital punishment and in favor of the education of underprivileged people and the religious tolerance.

In 1784, well-preserved Roman baths were discovered here.

Some of Murdoch's other minor inventions and experiments were: a machine developed in 1784 or 1785 in Cornwall for drilling wooden pipes, ( in 1810 this was further developed and patented for stone pipes ), a steam cannon which he attempted to use in 1803 to knock down a wall at Soho, a steam gun in the same year which fired 3 cm lead bullets, and machinery to grind and compress peat moss under great pressure to produce a material with " the appearance of the finest Jet ".

Father Pedro Estévan Tápis proposed the establishment of a mission on one of the Channel Islands in the Pacific Ocean off San Pedro Harbor in 1784, with either Santa Catalina or Santa Cruz ( known as Limú to the Tongva residents ) being the most likely locations, the reasoning being that an offshore mission might have attracted potential people to convert who were not living on the mainland, and could have been an effective measure to restrict smuggling operations.

Work on the mission chain was concluded in 1823, even though Serra had died in 1784 ( plans to establish a twenty-second mission in Santa Rosa in 1827 were canceled ).

The first four runnings were contested over 1 mile, but this was amended to the current distance of 1½ miles in 1784.

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 ").

Shortly after, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, founded in 1784, relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College ( and the Queen's College Grammar School, as all three institutions were then overseen by the Reformed Church in America ).

The works were begun in 1784 and were not concluded until 1850, long after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

These ranchos were established under the Spanish Empire and granted by King Carlos III in 1784.