Medicine
- Madame du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery in France, retires.
- Benjamin Franklin makes the first known specific reference (in a letter) to the wearing of bifocal spectacles.
- John Hunter first describes the condition phlebitis.
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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