of Fuenclara, arrives at Veracruz to become the new Spanish Viceroy of New Spain. Pennsylvania's Colonial Governor George Thomas bars citizens from settling in Lancaster County, or west of the Blue Mountains. November 13 – The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded. December 2 – The Pennsylvania Journal first appears in the United States. Date unknown The Lopukhina Conspiracy arises at the Russian court. The Afghan tribes unite as a monarchy. Daniel le Pelley succeeds Nicolas le Pelley, as Seigneur of Sark. Molde, Norway, becomes a city. Eisenach, Germany builds its Stadtschloss (city castle). Spain completes the construction of Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately south of St. Augustine, Florida. The University of Erlangen is founded in Bavaria. Anders Celsius publishes his proposal for a centigrade temperature scale originated in 1741. Colin Maclaurin publishes his Treatise on Fluxions. Charles Jervas's English translation of Don Quixote is published posthumously. Through a printer's error, the translator's name is printed as 'Charles Jarvis', leading the book to forever be known as the Jarvis translation. It is acclaimed as the most faithful English rendering of the novel made up to this time. The Roman Catholic church decrees that Roman ceremonial practice in Latin (not in Chinese) is to be the law for Chinese missions. Births January 8 – Philip Astley, English circus organizer (d. 1814) March 9 – Michael Anckarsvärd, Swedish politician (d. 1838) March 10 – Sampson Salter Blowers, American lawyer, jurist (d. 1842) March 14 – Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1797) March 12 – Aletta Haniel, German business person (d. 1815) April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman (d. 1811) May 6 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor, botanist (d. 1809) June 25 – Johann Schweighäuser, German classical scholar (d. 1830) June 26 – Arthur Middleton, American politician (d. 1787) June 28 – William Hooper, American statesman (d. 1790) July 21 – John Cleves Symmes, American statesman (d. 1814) July 27 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786) August 14 – Pope Pius VII (b. Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti), Italian Benedictine (d. 1823) September 14 – James Wilson, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1798) October 3 – Anders Jahan Retzius, Swedish chemist, botanist (d. 1821) October 6 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet (d. 1785) November 5 – Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821) December 9 –