1753 in France
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Events from the year 1753 in France
Incumbents
- Monarch – Louis XV
Events
- The chemical element bismuth discovered by Claude François Geoffroy
Births
- 4 July –Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809)
- 25 July – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, military officer in Spanish colonial service, Viceroy of the Río de la Plata (executed 1810)
- 20 November – Louis-Alexandre Berthier, maréchal de France (died 1815)[1]
- 23 November – Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, military officer (died 1837)
- Full date missing –Pierre Cuillier-Perron, military adventurer (died 1834)
Deaths
- 18 June – Claude François Geoffroy, chemist (born 1729)
- 10 November – Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, naval officer (born 1699)
- 10 December – Claude Gros de Boze, scholar and numismatist (born 1680)
gollark: Well, in that case I guess you could do automatic Morse code (or some variant), and if you could make a bright enough light (and maybe focus it on the receiving tower with mirrors or something), that might be longer-range than having to actually see the individual semaphore arms.
gollark: Oh, right. Hmm.
gollark: You probably could do an actual Morse code light, but I think if you can only move things around and heat them instead of actually generating light directly it would be more efficient to do the movable arms thingy.
gollark: Between ships and docks, maybe, for example? That might be useful.
gollark: Also shortish-range communication.
See also
References
- Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Berthier, Louis Alexandre". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 88–89. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
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