Stuff you need to know.

1755
Jun 30, Philippines closed all non-Catholic Chinese restaurants.

Jul 5, Sarah Siddons (d.1831), actress, was born at the Leg of Mutton Inn in Wales.
She rose to fame as a protïge of Richard Brinsley Sheridan at the Drury Lane Theater and gained fame playing Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

Nov 1, Lisbon flattened by Earthquake, Tsunami & fire.

The last specimen of a dodo bird, a stuffed but rotted relic, was burned at the Ashmoleum Museum of Harvard.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conceived

Mt Taranaki last erupted.