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
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 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
January 25 » The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
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.
September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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
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 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
May 17 » The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
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