The temperature on August 15, 1775 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
June 12 » American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
July 8 » The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
September 25 » American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
Christening day August 20, 1775
The temperature on August 20, 1775 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
May 20 » The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
September 8 » The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
December 9 » American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.
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