1770
ID: 575
Lagrange proves every positive integer expressible as sum of four perfect squares
ID: 575
1770
ID: 576
D'Holbach's 'System of Nature' - pure mechanistic atheism: 'universe presents only matter and motion'
ID: 576
1770
ID: 577
St. Benedict Joseph Labre begins life as pilgrim beggar visiting every major European shrine
ID: 577
1770
ID: 578
Josiah Wedgwood implements revolutionary cost accounting at pottery factory - uses accounting for management decisions
ID: 578
1770
ID: 579
Rousseau returns to Paris, writes Confessions justifying child abandonment as 'member of Plato's Republic'
ID: 579
1770
ID: 2274
Lord Mansfield decides Somerset's Case - slavery has no support in common law, must be established by positive law
ID: 2274
1770
ID: 5750
Pierre Poivre smuggles clove seedlings from Moluccas - French break Dutch monopoly, plants cloves in Mauritius
ID: 5750