Chemistry
- July - William Hyde Wollaston notes the discovery of the noble metal palladium.
- Charles's law (the "law of volumes"), describing how gases tend to expand when heated, is first published in France by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac.
- Thomas Wedgwood describes a method of creating (but not fixing) photographs using silver nitrate.
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