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Pierre Jean George Cabanis
1757Jun, 5

Pierre Jean George Cabanis

Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (d. 1808)
Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (French: [kabanis]; 5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808) was a French physiologist, freemason and materialist philosopher.

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Events on 1757

  • 5Jan

    Robert-François Damiens

    Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
  • 6May

    Christopher Smart's asylum confinement

    English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  • 5Nov

    Battle of Rossbach

    Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.