Abdu'llah bin Ismail as-Samin is deposed after a 15-year reign as Sultan of Morocco. October–December October 23 – Jamaica's Governor John Ayscough declares martial law to fight the slave rebellion that began in 1733, then drafts 600 men into the colonial army to march into the Blue Mountains. (→ First Maroon War) October 31 – Chief Tomochichi of the Yamacraw band of the Muscogee Nation ends a successful four and a half month visit to Great Britain, along with Georgia Governor James Oglethorpe and other Yamacraw Indians, after having signed the cession of the area of modern day Savannah, Georgia to the Georgia Company. On June 16, he and the Muscogee delegation (Senauki, Toonahowi, Hillispilli, Umpichi, Apokutchi, Santachi and Stimaletchi) had been welcomed as guests of King George II. The group departs on HMS Aldborough after completing the visit by the largest delegation of Native Americans since 1616. November 5 – The Dzików Confederation is created in Poland. December 24 – A fire destroys the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, the residence of the Spanish royal family, along with more than 400 valuable paintings, 100 sculptures and thousands of documents. Undated Creation of the Kanem–Bornu Empire after Kanem is taken over by the Sultan of Bornu. Anton Wilhelm Amo becomes the first African to receive a doctorate in Europe and begins teaching at the University of Halle. Births January 16 – John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (d. 1782) January 20 – Robert Morris, Founding Father of the United States (d. 1806) February 15 – William Stacy, American Revolutionary War officer (d. 1802) February 27 – Thomas Conway, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1800) March 1 – Jeanne de Bellem, heroine of the Brabant Revolution March 19 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817) April 17 – Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782) April – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (d. 1819) May 23 – Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815) July 25 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809) August 10 – Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (d. 1763) August 24 – Benjamin Church, first Surgeon General of the United States Army (d. 1763) September 3 – Joseph Wright, British painter (d. 1797) September 17 – Elizabeth Canning, English maidservant and kidnappee (d. 1773) October 7 – Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general (d. 1801) November 2 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820) December