Keopuolani, future wife of Kamehameha I, and mother of Liholiho and Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha II and III), born.
Artifacts and natural history specimens from Cook's third voyage (including the 1779 visit to Hawai`i) advertised for sale less than a year after the return of the Resolution and the Discovery.
The Boston Gazette and Country Journal contains the first American printed reference to the geographical reality of the Hawaiian Islands.
Essay on the Hawaiian honeycreeper published in the Gottinginisches Magazin.
Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary.
Austrian Empress Maria Theresa dies.
Benedict Arnold betrays Americans by helping British troops capture West Point.
