nine missions in the Province of Las Californias, including the sites around which future California cities will be built, including Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 and Mission San Francisco de Asís in 1776. December 30 – Mir Sayyid Muhammad, a grandson of the Shah Suleiman of Persia, overthrows Shahrokh Shah to become the Shah of Persia, and briefly restores the Safavid dynasty as Suleiman II; his reign ends less than three months later, on March 20, when Kurdish tribesmen restore Shahrokh to the throne. Date unknown A Census is conducted in Finland. The land reform of the Great Partition (Sweden) begins in Sweden, and continues until the 19th Century. Births January 13 – Friedrich Müller, German painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1825) January 16 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803) January 24 – Charles James Fox, English politician (d. 1806) January 29 – King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808) March 9 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French politician (d. 1791) March 10 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838) March 23 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer (d. 1827) March 23 – Ulla von Höpken, Swedish courtier, influential socialite (d. 1810) May 17 – Edward Jenner, English physician (d. 1823) April 11 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (d. 1803) June 15 – Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (d. 1814) June 19 – Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary (d. 1796) July 16 – Cyrus Griffin, last American President of the Continental Congress (d. 1810) August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician (d. 1832) September 25 – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (d. 1817) September 30 – Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician (d. 1842) October 25 – Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish ambassador (d. 1802) November 3 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish physician, chemist and botanist (d. 1819) November 17 – Nicolas Appert French inventor (d. 1841) November 23 – Edward Rutledge, American statesman (d. 1800) December 2 – Elisabeth Berenberg, German banker (d. 1809) December 17 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801) December 24 – Karl Gottfried Hagen, German chemist (d. 1829) December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt (known as Courtney Melmoth), English writer, poet and actor (d. 1814) date unknown – Charlotte Melmoth, British & American actress (d. 1823) Deaths February 1 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV (b.