The temperature on June 21, 1764 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Day of marriage June 20, 1790
The temperature on June 20, 1790 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
March 1 » The first United States census is authorized.
March 4 » France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
May 31 » The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
August 4 » A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
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