union question indefinitely. Date unknown Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the seat of Orange County, North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in 1759, and finally Hillsborough in 1766. St. Florian's Martyr Greek Catholic Church, Budapest is built. Marian apparition at Las Lajas in Colombia. Births January 15 Richard Martin, Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1834) Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (d. 1795) January 30 – John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (disappeared 1829) February 2 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician (d. 1838) February 6 – Andrew Fuller, Particular Baptist Theologian and minister (d. 1815) February 17 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803) March 4 – Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician, medical professor (smallpox vaccine pioneer) (d. 1846) March 17 – Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (d. 1793) March 23 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802) April 6 – Frédéric-César de La Harpe, Swiss politician and revolutionary May 23 – William Drennan, Irish physician, poet and radical politician (d. 1820) May 31 – Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Marshal of France (d. 1818) June 4 – Franz Xaver von Zach, German scientific editor and astronomer (d. 1832) June 8 – Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish poet, feminist and cultural figure (d. 1817) July 11 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician (d. 1825) August 9 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (d. 1825) August 18 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833) August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839) August 23 – Louis XVI of France, last king of France before the Revolution (d. 1793) September 9 – William Bligh, English sailor (d. 1817) September 20 – Emperor Paul I of Russia (d. 1801) September 26 – Joseph Proust, French chemist (d. 1826) October 9 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter (d. 1829) October 28 – John Laurens, American soldier (d. 1782) November 19 – Pedro Romero, Spanish torero (d. 1839) December 7 – Jack Jouett, American politician (d. 1822) December 9 – Étienne Ozi, French composer (d. 1813) December 15 – Usman dan Fodio, Nigerian Islamic theologian (d. 1817) December 24 – George Crabbe, English poet (d. 1832) Date unknown Eve Frank, Bulgarian religious leader (d. 1816) Deaths January–June January 5 – Marie