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Originally Posted by Malucci
1758 cal…I was thinking it might have been a bit early for the Wild West
still some interesting history. the Seven Year's War, related to and predated by the French and Indian War, was happening during this period. considered by some to be the first global conflict (between the British Empire and France) started in the colonies but carried over to other parts of the world a few years after. France was outnumbered by the British in the colonies, so they enlisted the help of local native communities, hence French & Indian War.
in other non-Seven Year's War news:
January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (Animalia) of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean taxonomy.[1] Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the lamprey with the name Petromyzon marinus.[2] He introduces the term **** sapiens. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.)[3]
March 30 – The first patent for a one-piece pencil with eraser is issued to American inventor J. Rechendorf of New York City.
December 25 – Halley's Comet appears for the first time, after Halley's identification of it.
Okadaya (岡田屋), predecessor of AEON, a multiple retailer group, founded in Yokkaichi, Japan.
let this one sink in for a bit...AEON can trace their history back over 263 years.