The Quite Incredible Number List: 1701-1800

1701: NCC-1701 is the designation of the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek. (vanjeet)

1702: ON 13th March 2014 US Airways Flight 1702 crashed on take-off at Philadelphia. No-one died, but one person hurt their shoulder using the escape chute badly enough to sue the airline. (tetsabb)

1703: The Great Storm happened in 1703. (Strawberry)

1704: The Lexicon Technicum or An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves by John Harris was first published in London in 1704. (vanjeet)

1705: Meg Shelton died in 1705. Also in 1705, construction began on Blenheim Palace. It was completed in 1724. (Strawberry)

1706: Thomas Twining opened the first tea room at No. 216 Strand in 1706. Twinings holds the world's oldest continually-used company logo and is London's longest-standing rate-payer. (vanjeet)

1707: The Union with England Act was passed by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. (Strawberry)

1708: Seki Kōwa, Japanese mathematician described as "Japan's Newton", died in 1708. (vanjeet)

1709: 1st or 2nd of February, 1709 - During his first voyage, Captain Woodes Rogers encountered marooned privateer Alexander Selkirk and rescued him after four years living on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands, inspiring Defoe's book Robinson Crusoe. After sacking Guayaquil, he and Selkirk visited the Galapagos Islands. (Strawberry)

1710: Team 1710 is a High School robotics club located in Olathe, KS. (AlmondFacialBar)

1711: The musical tuning fork was invented by John Shore in 1711. (Awitt)

1712: In 1712, Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley published a pirated star catalogue from observations made by John Flamsteed (without crediting him). Flemsteed managed to gather 300 of the 400 copies published and burned them. (vanjeet)

1713: On the 12th of March, 1713, Richard Steele and Joseph Addison founded The Guardian (not to be confused with the modern newspaper of the same name); in the same year, Steele founded another short-lived periodical, The Englishman. (Strawberry)

1714: Pill imprint W-1714 stands for KCl extended release tablets, used for the treatment of - unsurprisingly - hypokalaemia. (AlmondFacialBar)

1715: On the 3rd of May, 1715, a total solar eclipse was seen across southern England, Sweden and Finland (the best total eclipse visible in London for almost 900 years). (Strawberry)

1716: Wyst: Alastor 1716 is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance. (vanjeet)

1717: This is paragraph 1717 of the Catholic catechism: "The Beatitudes depict the countenance of Jesus Christ and portray his charity. They express the vocation of the faithful associated with the glory of his Passion and Resurrection; they shed light on the actions and attitudes characteristic of the Christian life; they are the paradoxical promises that sustain hope in the midst of tribulations; they proclaim the blessings and rewards already secured, however dimly, for Christ's disciples; they have begun in the lives of the Virgin Mary and all the saints." (AlmondFacialBar)

1718: The Doctrine of Chances, the first textbook on probability, written by Abraham de Moivre, was published in 1718. (vanjeet)

1719: UN haz mat code 1719 stands for a caustic, alkali liquid of no further specification. (AlmondFacialBar)

1720: The 1720 is a type of sailing dinghy, in production since 1994. (tetsabb)

1721: Guy's Hospital was founded in 1721. (vanjeet)

1722: Benjamin Franklin wrote letters using the pen name Mrs. Silence Dogood, when he was 16. These letters were published in the New-England Courant, the letters were published in 1722. (vanjeet)

1723: Vivaldi's masterpiece, The Four Seasons, was composed in 1723. (pandamonium)

1724: 1724 is a brand of tonic water for Argentina, named after the height above sea level where organic quinine is harvested. (tetsabb)

1725: 1725 is the name of a Tapas bar in Lancashire. (franticllama)

1726: In 1726, Rev. Dr Caleb Threlkeld published Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta, or "A Short Treatise of Native Plants, especially such as grow spontaneously in the Vicinity of Dublin; with their Latin, English, and Irish Names: And an Abridgment of their Vertues. With several new Discoverys." (vanjeet)

1727: 1727 is a brand of cider made by Symonds Cider and is named after the year they were founded. (Big Martin)

1728: 1728 is a quantity called a mass. It is also known as a dozen gross, a great/grand gross, or a cubic gross. (vanjeet)

1729: 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a visit to the hospital to see the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words, "I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."

1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

(Efros)

1730: The Valparaise earthquake happened in Chile on the 8th of July, 1730. (Strawberry)

1731: The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry; or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation was a book published by Jethro Tull in 1731. The progressive rock band Jethro Tull was named after him. (vanjeet)

1732: George Washington was born on the 22nd of February, 1732. (Alfred E Neuman)

1733: The perambulator was invented by William Kent in 1733. (vanjeet)

1734: 1734 is a witchcraft tradition. (Awitt)

1735: Alexander Pope's poem, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, was published in London on the 2nd of January, 1735. (Strawberry)

1736: James Watt was born in 1736. (vanjeet)

1737: Committee and Resolution 1737 of the UN pertain to sanctions against Iran due to its attempts to become a nuclear power. (tetsabb)

1738: Black Forest clockmaker Frank Ketterer produced one of the earliest cuckoo clocks in 1738. (Strawberry)

1739: Form BI-1739 is a South African Home Affairs form used for an application for renewal of an existing permit, more specifically a work permit for those employed in educational institutions. (Alfred E Neuman)

1740: In 1740, Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale with 0 set at the "temperature of the terrestrial globe", measured in a cellar 26 m below Paris Observatory, and 100 set to the temperature of boiling water. (vanjeet)

1741: The group Alestorm recorded a song entitled 1741 (The Battle of Cartagena). (Big Martin)

1742: 1742 Schaifers is a main-belt asteroid. (vanjeet)

1743: 16th of June, 1743 - Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: George II led his own troops, the last British king to do so. (Strawberry)

1744: The Glaabsbräu brewery was started in Seligenstadt in 1744 by Johannes Ruf and his wife, Elisabeth. (vanjeet)

1745: Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart landed on Eriskay on July 23 1745 in an attempt to take the British crown from the Hanoverians. (Big Martin)

1746: The Dress Act of 1746 made the wearing of the Highland Dress illegal in Scotland, though the act came into force from "the First day of August 1747". (The Wikipedia page seems to incorrectly state the date of enforcement as 1746.) (vanjeet)

1747: Samuel Johnson began work on his dictionary in 1747. (Big Martin)

1748: The ruins of Pompeii were rediscovered in 1748. (Strawberry)

1749: Part II of the erotic novel, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, was published in 1749. It was written by John Cleland. (vanjeet)

1750: J. S. Bach died on July 28th 1750. (Big Martin)

1751: 1751 are a brand advocacy agency for the drinks industry with a UK phone number, but an Irish top-level domain. They're not Irish. (AlmondFacialBar)

1752: England and Wales lost 11 calendar days in 1752; the calendar advanced from Wednesday 2 September 1752 to Thursday 14 September 1752. This was due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. (vanjeet)

1753: Prints of Thomas Bowles' View of Leicester Square 1753 are available in various different sizes from your friendly "South American River" on-line store. (Big Martin)

1754: On the 28th of January, 1754, Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coined the word "serendipity". (Strawberry)

1755: The Universal Music Group have their HQ at 1755 Broadway, New York City. They describe themselves as "the global music leader with strong market positions in recorded music, music publishing, and merchandising". (tetsabb)

1756: In 1756 Mikhail Lomonosov conducted experiments with metals and fire, which were the first steps leading to the disproof of phlogiston theory. (vanjeet)

1757: The 1757 Golf Club claims to offer Northern Virgina's ultimate golfing experience. (Big Martin)

1758: In 1758, the Távora affair was triggered by the attempted assassination of King Joseph I of Portugal. (vanjeet)

1759: The Guinness Brewery was founded in 1759. (tetsabb)

1760: In 1760, Samuel-Auguste Tissot published L'Onanisme, a treatise on the supposed ill-effects of masturbation. (vanjeet)

1761: The Transit of Venus in 1761 was widely observed by astronomers throughout the world, which allowed a lot of important calculations to be made. (Big Martin)

1762: Neolin, a prophet of the Lenni Lenape, began preaching in 1762 against European goods, alcohol, materialism, and polygamy. (vanjeet)

1763: The 1763 Lacrosse Club is based in Michigan. (Big Martin)

1764: The Castle of Otranto, "a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto", was published in 1764. It was written by Horace Walpole and is regarded as the first Gothic novel. (Strawberry)

1765: US Airways Flight 1765 operates daily between Charlotte and Kansas City. The flight takes just over 2 hours, but it crosses from EDT to CDT, so appears to take only an hour and a bit. (tetsabb)

1766: Meteorite Dhofar 1766 was found in Zufar, Oman in 2011. (Big Martin)

1767: The Townshend Acts were passed in 1767 (and 1768), introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration of the British colonies in America. (AlmondFacialBar)

1768: The Steller's sea cow, discovered on Bering Island in 1741, was driven to extinction in 1768. (Strawberry)

1769: In 1769, James Watt was granted Patent 913 for his improvements to the steam engine. (vanjeet)

1770: 1770 is a village in Queensland, Australia named for Captain Cook's landing there in May of that year. (Big Martin)

1771: A peak of around 60 novels were published in the British Isles in 1771. (Strawberry)

1772: Issue 1772 of Industrial Worker, organ of the Industrial Workers of the World, was issued in March 2015. (tetsabb)

1773: The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on the 16th of December, 1773. (Strawberry)

1774: Johann Birkenstock created the first Birkenstock sandals in 1774. (Big Martin)

1775: The American revolution began in 1775. (Awitt)

1776: In 1776 Cook sailed in a repaired Resolution to search for the North West Passage and to return Omai to his home on Huahine in the Society Islands. (Alfred E Neuman)

1777: Tu'i Malila (verified as the longest-lived tortoise) was hatched around 1777 and in the same year given by Captain Cook to the Tongan royal family. (vanjeet)

1778: In Considérations Générales sur la Nature des Acides (1778), Antoine Lavoisier demonstrated that air was responsible for combustion. (vanjeet)

1779: Construction started on the iron bridge at Ironbridge in 1779. (Big Martin)

1780: The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, the first Sunday newspaper in Britain, began publication in 1780. (Strawberry)

1781: The aforementioned Iron Bridge opened on 1st January 1781. (vanjeet)

1782: The Constitution of 1782 awarded limited Home Rule to Ireland for the following 20 years. (AlmondFacialBar)

1783: The Montgolfier brothers demonstrated their hor air balloon in Annonay in 1783. (Big Martin)

1784: 10 USC §1784 is part of American federal law which allows for spouses of serving military personnel to be given preferential access to government-funded employment in the vicinity of their spouse's permanent duty station. (PDR)

1785: Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' was first published in 1785, and is a dictionary of slang words. Grose was one of the first lexicographers to collect slang words from all corners of society, not just from the professional underworld of pickpockets and bandits. (bemahan)

1786: Caroline Herschel discovered her first comet in 1786. It was also the first comet discovered by a lady astronomer. (vanjeet)

1787: In May 1787 Capt. Arthur Phillip left Portsmouth bound for what was to become the future penal colony of Australia. (Awitt)

1788: Ships of Captain Phillip's "First Fleet" arrived at Sydney Cove on January 26 1788. (Big Martin)

1789: The Declaration of the Rights of Man was approved by the National Assembly of France on the 26th of August, 1789. (Alfred E Neuman)

1790: The first United States census took place in 1790. (Big Martin)

1791:John Wesley, the English founder of Methodism, died on 2nd March 1791. (bemahan)

1792: In 1792, Denmark was the first country in the world to outlaw slavery. (Strawberry)

1793: Alexander Mackenzie completes the Peace River expedition in 1793, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of America north of Mexico. (vanjeet)

1794: Edward Gibbon died on the 16th of January, 1794. (Strawberry)

1795: The Wold Cottage meteorite fell to the Earth on 13 December 1795 at Wold Cottage farm in Yorkshire. (vanjeet)

1796: On the 14th of May, 1796, Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination, in England. (Strawberry)

1797: The year 1797 saw the almost farcical French invasion at Fishguard. (Big Martin)

1798: In September, 1798, Charles Brockden Brown published the first significant American novel, the Gothic fiction Wieland: or, The Transformation; an American Tale. (Strawberry)

1799: July 19th 1799 French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone, whose decipherment meant that Ancient Egyptian texts could now be read and understood. (tetsabb)

1800: John Adams became the first US president to live in the White House in 1800. (Big Martin)