January 1 – Retrospectively, the minimum date value for a datetime field in an SQL Server (up to version 2005) due to this being the first full year since Britain's adoption of the Gregorian calendar.
Medicine
James Lind publishes the first edition of A Treatise on the Scurvy (although it is little noticed at this time).[6]
Physics
November 25 – The Russian Academy of Sciences announces a competition among chemists and physicists to provide "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory"; the prize will be won in 1755 by Johann Euler.[7]
Technology
February 17 – The concept of electrical telegraphy is first published in the form of a letter from 'C. M.' to The Scots' Magazine.[8]
^Juznic, Stanislav Joze (2012). "Hallerstein and Gruber's Scientific Heritage". The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. p. 358.
^"An Expeditious Method of Conveying Intelligence". Huurdeman, Anton A. (2003). The Worldwide History of Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons. p. 48.
^Semple, George (1776). A Treatise on Building in Water. Dublin: Husband.