The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica was published.
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King Berger of Sweden celebrated Christmas with his brothers before throwing them in his dungeons to die.
Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina's first elected female president.
The Treaty of Paris was signed.
Calbraith Rodgers completed the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days.
Isaac Newton's calculations and theories based on Kepler's laws were read to the Royal Society in London.