The temperature on May 10, 1776 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. Source: KNMI
January 1 » General George Washington hoists the first United States flag; the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill.
May 4 » Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
June 28 » American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
August 2 » The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
December 5 » Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
December 19 » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
Day of burial January 20, 1783
The temperature on January 20, 1783 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
April 15 » Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
November 21 » In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
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