Timeline July 1784

Events in July 1784 3

• 1713 – 1784 Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Died 31 July 1784, aged 70 Denis Diderot, co-founder and chief editor of the Encyclopedie, died in Paris. His great compendium of Enlightenment knowledge, compiled over two decades, challenged religious and political authority through its scope and rationalist outlook. He also wrote influential works of fiction and art criticism, including Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's Nephew.
• 1784 Spain Reestablishes Control of East Florida British evacuation completes transfer agreed at the 1783 Peace of Paris Spanish forces formally took possession of East Florida as British troops and loyalist settlers completed their evacuation under the terms of the 1783 Peace of Paris. The transfer returned Florida to Spanish rule after twenty years of British administration. Spain would govern the territory until ceding it to the United States in 1821.
• 1784 – 1846 Friedrich Bessel (1784-1846) Died 17 March 1846, aged 61 Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician. In 1838 he made the first reliable measurement of the distance to a star, 61 Cygni, using parallax. The Bessel functions are named after him.