March 4 » John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
August 10 » The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
October 29 » Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
November 2 » Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
November 11 » Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
December 19 » The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
Day of burial April 10, 1742
The temperature on April 10, 1742 was about 5.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
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