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||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
||1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.


||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer.
||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (d. 1777) was an Italian philosopher and writer. His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics.


||1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
||1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of the island's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.

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