January 1 "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue January 7 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries) January 11 Continental Congress convenes in New York City January 13 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times January 14 Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10) January 15 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres January 20 Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Island), no takers January 27 1st U.S. state university chartered, Athens Georgia March 1 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized April 21 Russian tsarina Catharina II ends noble privileges May 9 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle May 23 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals June 15 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident July 6 Congress resolves U.S. currency named "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage July 12 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands August 1 Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet August 15 French cardinal De Rohan arrested September 1 Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna September 10 Prussia signs trade agreement with US September 28 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) September 29 Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland November 10 Netherlands and France signs treaty November 17 Church of England organizes in New England
