1772
ID: 580
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick begins organizing Wilhelmsbad Convention - attempt at unified 'Super-Masonry'
ID: 580
1772
ID: 581
Lagrange develops 'Mécanique analytique' - replaces geometric proofs with pure algebraic analysis
ID: 581
1772
ID: 582
Lagrange develops systematic theory of continued fractions for Diophantine analysis
ID: 582
1772
ID: 2275
Somerset v. Stewart decided - slave freed on English soil, 'the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe'
ID: 2275
1772
ID: 5997
First Partition of Poland - Catherine the Great takes eastern territories with 1.8 million new subjects
ID: 5997