the construction a year earlier. December 14 – The play Douglas is performed for the first time in Edinburgh, with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the local church presbytery, who summon Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation. However, it fails in its early promise to set up a new Scottish dramatic tradition. Date unknown Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato. The first chocolate-candy factory begins operations in Germany. The town of Gus-Khrustalny is established in Russia, with the setting up of a crystal glass factory. Leopold Mozart publishes his book on his method for learning to play the violin, Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule. Births January 19 – Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entomologist (d. 1814) January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791) February 20 – Angelica Schuyler Church, American socialite, daughter of Genl.Philip Schuyler, sister to Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (d. 1814) March 3 – William Godwin, English writer (d. 1836) March 4 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823) May 10 – Singu Min, king of Myanmar (k. 1782) May 18 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, Hungarian-born court councillor, minister to Czar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1839) May 27 – King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825) May 31 – Abbé Faria, Luso-Goan Catholic monk, student of hypnotism (d. 1819) June 6 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843) June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (d. 1792) July 7 – Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Swedish statesman (d. 1813) July 31 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Tamil king (d. 1805) August 1 – Pierre Louis Prieur, French politician (d. 1827) August 29 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal, statesman (d. 1845) September 7 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (d. 1831) September 23 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer, road-builder (d. 1836) October 21 – Philippine Engelhard, German writer, scholar (d. 1831) October 27 - Nathaniel Pendleton, Amer. lawyer, judge. Famous "second" to A. Hamilton. (d.1821) November 3 – Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (d. 1837) date unknown Maria Pellegrina Amoretti, Italian lawyer (d. 1787) Gideon Morris, trans-Appalachian pioneer (d. 1798) Hilchen Sommerschild, Norwegian educator (d. 1831) Deaths January 17 – Isabella Simons, banker in the Austrian Netherlands (b. 1694) January 18 – Francis George of Schönborn-Buchheim (b. 1682) February 22 – Akdun, Chinese Manchu statesman (b. 1685) February 25 – Eliza Haywood, English