of King Louis XV in Paris. Chicagou pledges the Illini's support of the French presence in North America. November 26 – British astronomers James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux set up a telescope in Molyneux's private observatory to begin their observations of stellar parallax of the star Gamma Draconis. The observations, which start on December 3, lead to Bradley's pioneering discovery of the aberration of light. December 12 – Johan Willem Ripperda of the Netherlands, the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in Madrid and claims that King Philip V has appointed him as the new Prime Minister. The bluff is successful and he is granted authority by the King's advisers, but after four months, he is forced to resign. December 15 – A treaty is signed by chiefs of four member tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy (the Abenaki, Pequawket, Mi'kmaq, Maliseet) and representatives of three British provinces in North America (Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire and Nova Scotia) and their allies, the Mohawk nation, bringing an end to Dummer's War, named for acting Massachusetts Bay Governor William Dummer. Date unknown The Terengganu Sultanate is established at Terengganu Darul Iman (now known as Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia). A fire in Wapping, London, destroys 70 houses. In Qing dynasty China, 66 copies of a 5,020 volume-long encyclopedia, the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times) are printed, necessitating the crafting of 250,000 movable type characters cast in bronze. Freemasonry is established in France, as an English import. The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, is published. Gradus ad Parnassum, a seminal work on counterpoint, laying out rules of constructing music, is published by Johann Joseph Fux Births January 25 – Antoine Court de Gébelin, French pastor (d. 1784) February 4 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1803) February 5 James Otis, American lawyer, patriot (d. 1783) Anna Maria Rückerschöld, Swedish author (d. 1805) February 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794) February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798) February 26 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804) March 6 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian-born cardinal, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (d. 1807) March 17 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806) March 20 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) March 24 Samuel Ashe,