The temperature on November 9, 1766 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Day of marriage June 17, 1792
The temperature on June 17, 1792 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 16 » King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
March 29 » King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
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