After his return to England from India in April 1784, Phillip remained in close contact with Townshend, now Lord Sydney, and the Home Office Under Secretary, Evan Nepean.

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.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

In 1784, at the age of 14, he entered a seven-year apprenticeship with the Hudson's Bay Company.

Bad harvests ( caused in part by extreme weather from El Niño along with volcanic activity at Laki and Grímsvötn in 1783 – 1784 ), rising food prices, and an inadequate transportation system that hindered the shipment of bulk foods from rural areas to large population centers contributed greatly to the destabilization of French society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

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.

In 1784 a war with Great Britain ended particularly disastrously.

Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii, 1784, with a scene from ancient history.

* 1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.

At the beginning of that reign Malesherbes during his short ministry endeavoured to infuse some measure of justice into the system, and in March 1784 the baron de Breteuil, a minister of the king's household, addressed a circular to the intendants and the lieutenant of police with a view to preventing the most serious abuses connected with the issue of lettres de cachet.

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.

* 1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

Beginning with Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), an association of the gesture with Roman republican and imperial culture emerged through 18th century French art.

While Minister to France during 1784 – 1789, Jefferson had opportunity to see some of the classical buildings with which he had become acquainted from his reading, as well as to discover the " modern " trends in French architecture then fashionable in Paris.

Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha, known as Patsy, went with him to France in 1784.

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 ).

In France, Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 72 ) edited by Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophes cousins.

He won important victories against the British in the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and negotiated the 1784 Treaty of Mangalore with them after his father died the previous year.

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.

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 organization in the United States occurred in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1784, with the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Christmas Conference with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the leaders.

He was appointed as France's Inspector of Naval Shipbuilding in 1784, and with the assistance of the naval architect Jacques-Noël Sané in 1786 introduced a massive construction programme to revitalise the French navy based on the standard designs of Sané.

The occupation of northern Bukovina by Austria in 1774 brought a further wave of Székely immigration: another 100 families settled in the still sparsely populated territory in 1776, followed by a further 200 in 1784 and 1786, with assistance from Emperor Joseph II of Austria and Count András Hadik, governor of Transylvania.

In March 1806, he married Margaret Maret ( 1784 – 1875 ), daughter of Count Jean Philibert Maret and niece of Hugues-Bernard Maret.

Also following her to America was her brother, William Lee ( 1740 – 1784 ); Nancy Lee, her niece ; James Whittaker ( 1751 – 1787 ), who had been brought up by Mother Ann and was probably related to her ; John Hocknell ( 1723 – 1799 ), who provided the funds for the trip ; his son, Richard ; and James Shepherd and Mary Partington.

In the United States, political economy first was taught at the College of William and Mary ; in 1784, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was a required textbook.

Arguably the congregant Price most influenced was the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who moved her fledgling school for girls from Islington to the Green in 1784, with the help of a fairy godmother whose good auspices found her a house to rent and twenty students to fill it.

His early memorial work included monuments for Thomas Chatterton in the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol ( 1780 ), Mrs Morley in Gloucester Cathedral ( 1784 ), and the Rev.

Grove was born in Clapham, the eighth of the eleven children of Thomas Grove ( 1774 – 1852 ), fishmonger and venison dealer, and his wife, Mary ( 1784 – 1856 ), née Blades.

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.

In 1784 he married Mary Smith, a descendant of Landgrave Thomas Smith, another family from the Charleston elite.

* Mary Elizabeth Thornton Hore-Ruthven, 8th Lady Ruthven of Freeland ( c. 1784 – 1864 )

On March 12, 1832, he married Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard ( May 27, 1809June 14, 1842 ), daughter of Francis Blanchard ( baptised February 1, 1784 – age estimated 29 at death, June 26, 1813 ) and wife ( m. August 29, 1808 ) Mary Ann Cabot ( baptised May 9, 1784July 25, 1809 ), with whom he had three children.

Jonathan Jennings was born the son of Jacob and Mary Kennedy Jennings in Readington, New Jersey during 1784, the fifth of seven children.

* Mary Jones and her Bible ( 1784 – 1864 ), Welsh girl associated with Bible dissemination

Colonel of the 2nd Staffordshire Militia and Colonel Commandant of the Lichfield Volunteer Yeomanry, who had been posted to India where he married Mary Rotton ( 1767 – 1830 ) of Duffield, Derbyshire in October 1784.

In 1784 William Townsend was first mentioned as a paper maker in St Mary Cray.

Bernard Barton was born at Carlisle on 31 January 1784, the son of Quaker parents, John Barton ( 1755 – 1789 ) and his wife, Mary, née Done ( 1752 – 1784 ).

* Mary Elizabeth Lange ( Mother Mary Lange ) ( 1784 – 1882 ), foundress of Oblate Sisters of Providence

He was the son of Nicholas Trengrouse ( 1739 – 1814 ) by his wife, Mary Williams ( d. 1784 ).

Arguably the most important resident of the Green was the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who moved her fledgling school for girls from Islington to Newington Green in 1784, with the help of a fairy godmother.

Posey remarried Mary Alexander Thornton, the wealthy widow of George Thornton, in 1784.

In 1784, the year of his marriage to Mary Plowman, Porden was appointed estate surveyor by the 1st Earl Grosvenor.

During the 16th century the old church of St. Nicholas was built, then enlarged in 1784, in appearance very similar to the St. Mary Magdalene church in Nerezine.

Nano NagleHonora " Nano " Nagle ( 1718 – 26 April 1784 ) founded the " Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary " ( PBVM ) in Ireland ( also known as the " Presentation Sisters ").

In 1784, he painted two religious paintings for the church of St. Mary ’ s-in-the-Strand, which led Brown to found a partnership with the painter Daniel Orme for the commercialization of these and other works through exhibition and the sale of engravings.