taken away by the government so that they can be brought up by Christian families, a proclamation that "produced little or no effect in comparison with the trouble involved". December 2 – Future Pennsylvania chief executive John Dickinson begins publishing his revolutionary "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" in the Pennsylvania Chronicle. December 28 – Phraya Taksin, a minor provincial official in Siam (now Thailand), crowns himself as King of Siam, establishing the Siamese Thonburi Kingdom, taking the regnal name of Borommaracha IV and begins a 14-year reign of liberation and conquest; historically, he is known as "Taksin the Great". December 29 – Oconostota and Attakullakulla arrive at Johnstown, New York where they, along with leaders of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora tribal nations) meet with Sir William Johnson to begin peace negotiations with the British Empire. Births January 8 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's law (d. 1832) February 2 – Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, German naturalist, botanist (d. 1851) March 15 – Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States (d. 1845) March 25 – Joachim Murat, French marshal, King of Naples (d. 1815) April 21 – Elisabeth of Württemberg, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1790) April 25 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847) May 4 – Tyagaraja, Indian Carnatic music composer (d. 1847) May 12 – Manuel Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851) May 13 – John VI of Portugal, King of Portugal (d. 1826) May 15 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur, politician (d. 1843) June 24 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator (d. 1846) July 4 – Kyokutei Bakin, Japanese author (d. 1848) July 11 – John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (d. 1848) July 28 – James A. Bayard (elder), U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1815) August 24 – Bernhard Meyer, German physician, ornithologist (d. 1836) August 25 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French revolutionary (d.1794) September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Brazilian composer (d. 1830) October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830) November 2 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1820) November 20 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian national hero (d. 1810) December 3 – Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, French writer (d. 1825) date unknown Black Hawk, Sauk Indian Chief,