The temperature on October 18, 1766 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: rijp. Source: KNMI
May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
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 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
Day of marriage May 24, 1791
The temperature on May 24, 1791 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
May 15 » French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
Day of death April 4, 1792
The temperature on April 4, 1792 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
May 15 » War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
May 21 » A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that kills nearly 15,000 people.
August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
September 22 » Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
October 12 » The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
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