The temperature on April 29, 1774 was about 13.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
May 10 » Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
Day of death June 26, 1788
The temperature on June 26, 1788 was about 16.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 18 » The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
April 7 » American pioneers to the Northwest Territory establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
April 28 » Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
June 11 » Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
June 25 » Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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