Deaths on April 15

Jacopo Riccati

Died on April 15, 1754

Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)

Jacopo Francesco Riccati (28 May 1676 – 15 April 1754) was a Venetian mathematician and jurist from Venice. He is best known for having studied the equation which bears his name.

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28 May

Battle of Jumonville Glen
French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.