issues a decree authorizing the new way to produce vodka (by freezing). August 16 – The Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India. August 14 – In protest of the Stamp Act, Bostonians attack the home of official Andrew Oliver. August 18 – Joseph II becomes Holy Roman Emperor. August 26 – In protest of the Stamp Act, Bostonians destroy the home of lieutenant governor Thomas Hutchinson. September 6 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house in Switzerland is stoned by a mob. September 21 – François Antoine announces he has killed the Beast of Gévaudan. October 17 – The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a Mr. McCullough, the Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest at the Stamp Act. A Dr. Huston is appointed to the position. November 1 – The Stamp Act goes into effect in the thirteen American colonies. December 12 – The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that Dr. Huston, the recently instated Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest at the Stamp Act. Date unknown The first chocolate factory in the Thirteen Colonies is established by Dr. James Baker at Dorchester, Massachusetts. The first true restaurant opens in Paris, where a tavern-keeper named Boulanger sells cooked dishes at an all-night place on the Rue Bailleul. In Lisbon, the auto-da-fé parade (often an excuse for violence against Jews or Christian 'heretics') is abolished. Desai Atash Behram is established in Navsari, India. Catherine the Great establishes the first secondary education school for non-noble females in Russia: the Novodevichii Institute, for the daughters of commoners. Births January 11 – Antoine Alexandre Barbier, French librarian (d. 1825) January 23 – Thomas Todd, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1826) February 1 – Charles Hatchett, English chemist (d. 1847) February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer (d. 1846) February 22 – Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer, scholar (d. 1853) March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833) March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher, theologian (d. 1841) April 1 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810) April 6 – Duke Charles Felix of Savoy (d. 1831) April 11 – Gertrudis Bocanegra, Mexican national heroine (d. 1817) April 26 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio