The temperature on October 2, 1782 was about 9.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
March 16 » Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
April 6 » King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
April 19 » John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
May 6 » Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
December 14 » The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2km (1.2mi).
Christening day April 18, 1783
The temperature on April 18, 1783 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: zeer 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.
April 18 » Three-Fifths Compromise: the first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
November 25 » American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
December 23 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
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