22 July — the "Manifesto on the Advantages and Privileges Granted to Foreign Settlers" and the "Decree on the Establishment of the Chancellery for the Guardianship of Foreign Settlers" were published.
The passport gained significance as a means of collecting a passport fee. Passport fees were introduced in 1763: for one-year and shorter-term passports — 10 kopecks; for two-year passports — 50 kopecks; for three-year passports — 1 ruble. In the early 19th century, for townspeople and peasants the fee for a one-year passport would already amount to 6 rubles, and for five years — 70 rubles in assignations.
After the death of Augustus III, Catherine II, supporting Stanislaw Poniatowski, sent troops to Warsaw; they occupied the city, after which Poniatowski was elected king. The Russian envoy Prince Repnin demanded that dissidents be granted the right to hold offices and to elect deputies to the Sejm.
23 February — an order of the Dmitrov Voivodeship Chancellery on new levies from the Rogachev peasants was announced, which caused a "rebellion with cries of riotousness and disobedience." "The guilty Sergei Dunaev, Ilya Markov, and the soldier Belkin were duly punished, and the rest were restrained by strict measures."