May – The Geological Society publishes a Geological Map of England & Wales by G. B. Greenough (dated 1819) as an alternative to William Smith's famous geological map of 1815. Greenough's map is produced from a collaborative effort that is skilfully edited and generally acknowledged to be more accurate than Smith's.[7]
English inventor Thomas Hancock patents the production of fastenings using rubberized fabrics and invents the "pickling machine" (masticator) for recycling rubber scraps.
October 4 – Claudine Picardet (born 1735), French chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator.
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