what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory. December 6 – In Buddhist tradition, Jigme Lingpa discovers the Longchen Nyingthig terma through a meditative vision, which brings him to Boudhanath. The Longchen Nyingtig is a popular cycle of teachings in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. December 14 – Battle of Khresili: King Solomon I of Imereti defeats the Ottoman army and an allied faction of nobles, in what is now western Georgia. December 30 – James Abercrombie replaces James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun as supreme commander in the American colonies. Abercrombie is replaced himself, after failing to take the fort at Ticonderoga. Date unknown Nam tiến, the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam into the Indochina Peninsula, is concluded. Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria in English and French, making the ancient city of Baalbek, Syria known to the West. Emanuel Swedenborg claims to have witnessed the Last Judgment occurring in the spiritual world. Births January 11 – Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (most cited date of birth) (d. 1804) January 16 – Richard Goodwin Keats, British admiral, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834) February 3 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist (d. 1833) February 20 – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834) April 9 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833) April 28 – Edmund Butcher, English Unitarian minister (d. 1822) May 6 – Veronika Gut, Swiss rebel heroine (d. 1829) May 7 – Ludwig von Brauchitsch, Prussian general (d. 1827) May 25 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, French chemist, physicist and inventor (d. 1837) May 30 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844) June 18 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833) June 22 – George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798) July 20 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat, politician (d. 1811) August 9 – Elizabeth Schuyler, wife of Alexander Hamilton, co-founder of New York's first orphanage (d. 1854) August 9 – Thomas Telford, Scottish-born civil engineer, architect (d. 1834) August 23 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775) September 6 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier, statesman (d. 1834) September 20 – Esther de Gélieu, Swiss educator (d. 1817) October 9 – King Charles X of France (d. 1836) October 21 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de