an estimated magnitude of 9.3 occurs off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunamis up to high follow in the Pacific ocean. November 4 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy. December 24 – General Baji Rao I of the Maratha Empire in India defeats the armies of the rulers of Hyderabad, Oudh, Bhopal and Jaipur in the Battle of Bhopal. December – John Wesley leaves Savannah, Georgia, and returns to England. Date unknown Benjamin Franklin creates the Philadelphia Police Force – the first city-paid force. The Georg August University of Göttingen in Saxony is opened to students. Our Lady of Guadalupe is designated the patron saint of Mexico City. Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed, in response to the seven preceding violent years of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war. Births January 4 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist, politician (d. 1816) January 23 – John Hancock, American politician and revolutionary (d. 1793) January 29 – Thomas Paine, British-born American patriot and pamphleteer (d. 1809) March 14 – Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (d. 1828) March 23 – Arthur St. Clair, American soldier and politician (d. 1818) April 27 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (d. 1794) May 2 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805) June 20 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1786) August 5 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician (d. 1772) August 14 – Charles Hutton, English mathematician (d. 1823) August 29 – John Hunter, second governor of New South Wales (d. 1821) September 9 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798) September 14 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806) September 15 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest (d. 1804) September 19 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, only Roman Catholic signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1832) December 26 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815) date unknown – Frances Abington, English actress (d. 1815) Gelelemend, Indigenous American (Lenape) leader (d. 1811) Deaths January 24 – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1657) January 29 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666) February 14 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685) March