French astronomer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pons" id="mwcQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jean-Louis Pons">Jean-Louis Pons</a> makes his first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet" id="mwcg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Comet">comet</a> discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.